UBuntu on older machines ?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> Anyway, I spent the day installing stuff on my old 200MMX board.
> 
> Ubuntu/Gnome worked but was too slow to be of real use for a desktop.
> So I installed Xfce4 from Synaptic. It improved things a fair bit, but
> that was still a bit of a pain, not responsive enough.

Last year, when I was trying to Fedora Core 1 on a Pentium 1 233mhz
with 96 megs of ram, I
ended up using pawn as my window manager:
  http://www.pleyades.net/pawm/

It is very bare, and nothing fancy, but I don't don't think you can
find a smaller memory-footprint window manager than this one.  And at
the time it was enough for my needs on that desktop machine.  But I
never tried it on a Debian machine, but I suspect it will work.