2009/4/15 B STEVENS <b.stevens611@???>:
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> thanks again, gentlemen... your advice is appreciated :-)
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I'd recommend crunchbanglinux rather than xubuntu. It's ubuntu based,
but uses a very lightweight openbox window manager.
http://crunchbanglinux.org
Very nice. I run it on an old Dell PIII650MHz with 256MB RAM. On
booting to the desktop the memory footprint is under 100MB, nearer 60.
Cheers,
Al.