Running the standard Fedora 13 Gnome spin on a Dell mini 10v at the moment - 260MB RAM in-use with Firefox and Thunderbird open, which seems pretty light to me.

Running the standard Fedora 13 Gnome spin on a Dell mini 10v at the moment - 260MB RAM in-use with Firefox and Thunderbird open, which seems pretty light to me. Remove the bottom Gnome toolbar and set the top toolbar to auto-hide (put the task switcher in the top toolbar), to get your vertical screen real estate back. Set 'resample-method' to 'speex-float-0' in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to stop PulseAudio sucking up gobs of CPU and you're good to go. i386 Fedora has been compiled with '-mtune=atom' since F12, which is nice for netbooks. (Not so nice for my Core Duo Mac Mini server, but it's not exactly CPU-bound so No Big Deal).