thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I've noticed your correspondence with Thad the other day. I can recall the
>> time that I installed Ubuntu on a ~4 year-old machine at work and it was as
>> fast as a thunder. I'm not entirely sure the XFCE equivalent is /much/
>> lighter. Someone argues that Canonical gradually got it bloated.
>
> I don't have the numbers to back this up, but I converted a 700MHz
> CPU 384MB RAM system from Ubuntu to Xubuntu and it seems noticeably
> faster.
>
I'm pretty sure that xfce was much lighter in its pre-4 version, but
even at release 4, it's a lot lighter than KDE or Gnome.
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