<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Randy <<a href="mailto:Randy@1800ubuntu.com">Randy@1800ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> HI, I'm new to Xubuntu. I've been using Ubuntu on and off since 6.06 and I just recently ditched windows in favor of Ubuntu 9.04. I rescued a PIII 650MHz 384MB machine from the trash heap with Xbuntu 9.10 -- thanks everyone for a great lightweight operating system.) It's snappy even on this boat anchor. I'm considering installing Xubuntu on my main (P4 2.6GHz 1.25MB) machine - it would really scream there, but I want to make sure I can do everything I need to do. So here are a couple of questions I have: Can anyone recommend a good, lighweight file manager that has network support? Would simply installing Open Office (not using it, it's bloated and I know it's slow) slow down the performance of Xubuntu. If so, does it run any processes (such as a pre-launcher, etc.) that could be killed when I am not using it? I only need OO for one client that I work for (I'm a freelance technical writer), so I would only be using it about 10 days out of each month. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.</blockquote><div> </div></div>Xubuntu by default includes Gigolo for mounting network shares. Installing OpenOffice shouldn't slow it down when you're not running it AFAICT. Good luck, -- Vincent