Chetyre wrote:So, my question is this--how does Linux Mint compare to Xubuntu? What about Linux Mint XFCE edition? And if they'd run about the same, any ideas for what could be even better?
My basic specs are that it's a 800mhz processor with 128m ram. If you need mre specifics I can boot it up and check.
Thanks!
My last post didn't answer your question very well so I'll try again. The Xubuntu installer wouldn't run to completion on my PIII Coppermine laptop with 192MB or RAM. It was months ago and I don't remember the details. I moved on to Puppy Linux and a Slax-based distro. Both ran adequately but the included browsers (Seamonkey and Konqueror) slowed and crashed with more that 7 browser tabs open. With a little more RAM, Puppy would have been a keeper.
Now I'm dual booting Mint 5 Elyssa with XFCE and Dreamlinux. Both are impressive. Both run Firefox with fewer problems but I still experience slowdowns and crashes due to only having 192MB of RAM. My recommendation would be MInt XFCE and try Opera as your browser.
128MB really seems to be the bottom limit these days but with some tweaking, it might work with Mint, Puppy, or Dreamlinux.