I'd not use Xubuntu out of the box - Distrowatch this week has a nice piece showing that its very much more resource intensive, like in some cases 10x, than Xfce on Debian.
One could do a custom Xubuntu install and leave out all the fat. In which case a barebones Lenny install will be more stable and no more trouble. But surely the logical choice for a PIII is not Xfce, Gnome or KDE, but Fluxbox, and maybe not even Debian or Ubuntu, but Puppy with one of the minimalist WMs, Fluxbox or JWM for instance. A barebones Debian with Fluxbox or JWM will be quite fast. Slax is also not bad, a bit more featured than Puppy and comes with Fluxbox which you can use instead of the stripped down KDE which is the default. Xfce is a bit lighter weight than Gnome or KDE, but there is not a huge amount in it, and Fluxbox beats all three by a mile. Puppy is brilliant for low end machines. There is a minimalist Fluxbox Ubuntu, Fluxbuntu. Might be worth considering also if one really wants to stay with Ubuntu. Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
