<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 1:30 PM, Ben Rousch <<a href="mailto:brousch@gmail.com">brousch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Speaking of low-end PCs, I have been an Ubuntu user since Warty, and I have noticed that it gets a little more bloated with each new version. Gutsy is very pretty, but I am swapping a lot more often than I used to on the same hardware (Thinkpad T20 with 512 and Thinkpad T30 with 512MB). I have tried a few of the ultra-stripped down distros (DSL and Puppy), but they tend to be ugly and lack a lot of functionality I have come to expect such as fully-functional Firefox/Flash/Java. I have also tried Xubuntu, but you lose a lot of the Gnome polish that makes Ubuntu so user-friendly. Are there any polished distros that target computers with 1-2GHz procs and 512MB of RAM? Computers - especially laptops - with those specs are very cheap these days and it would be nice to have something pretty and functional to install on them.
</p></blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><br>Debian may not be as polished as Ubuntu - but i'm always amazed how much faster a Debian install is with a full gnome-desktop vs the latest Ubuntu. <br><br>Ease of use and amazing hardware support comes with a performance penalty. You could always try rolling your own kernel and get rid of all the gunk you don't need. SCSI, IRDA, wireless drivers, dial-up, and alot of other things are compiled in by default. You'll find a ton of HOWTO's on
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org">ubuntuforums.org</a>.<br><br>Nate<br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div>