[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Duane]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Jim <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>> Ethan asked:
>>
>> > Does anyone have any recommendations for lightweight distros that are
>> > sophisticated enough to run a graphical web browser and OOffice?
>>
>> Firefox and OO are memory hogs, regardless of which distro they are on.
> 
> Absolutely.  I was just after an environment that would be
> light-weight enough to leave some memory for them.  Gnome is also a
> hog.

Another alternative always over looked is Opera which imho has as many
(if not more) built-in common features (in fact FF copied most of them)
and doesn't bog your system down anywhere near as much, is quicker and
more responsive then FF on nearly every system I've used it on.

The only big resource hog I am left using is Thunderbird, does anyone
know of anything that works/looks/layout similar to thunderbird at all,
but isn't a resource hog?

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