[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Ethan Dicks]

On 3/29/07, Paul Williams <paul at smoothweb.net> wrote:
> Xubuntu comes to mind. It is basically Ubuntu, but it uses the Xfce
> desktop environment, which does not require a lot of resources.
> http://www.xubuntu.org/

I think that's a workable avenue to explore - Gnome is just plain
crushing this machine.

> You could always just install E17 or Fluxbox if you are only using it
> for browsing and document editing.

I do want to do C and Perl development as well, but the real resource
pigs are a browser and a document editor.

Thanks,

-ethan