advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

On Thu, 21 May 2009, Frank Adams wrote:

> I have had good luck with xubuntu on slower machines, and if you stick
> with abiword there are a hsot of plugins to give it just the
> functionality you need!! There was a recent comparison of xubu to Debian
> running xfce, and the reviewer found Debian to run noticeably faster
> using the xfce desktop. Frank
>

Thats because Xubuntu installs a lot of extra stuff designed to make the 
end users life easier.  Debian just installs the actual desktop 
environment.  You can get just as fast of a system if you use the ubuntu 
alternate installer, install the command line only system ( with "cli" as 
the boot option ), and run "apt-get install xfce4" after you get your 
network and whatnot up.