On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Jason Hsu wrote: > The bloatware of Ubuntu is enough to scare me off. Linux Mint Debian > Edition with GNOME feels faster with only 512 MB of RAM than X/Ubuntu > feels with 2 GB of RAM. Ubuntu has finally caught up with Windows when > it comes to hardware requirements. Have you tried Lubuntu? It's Light Ubuntu, I guess. It was mentioned in the article. I haven't tried it and know nothing that wasn't in the article. Mike