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Yes, but a debian version from several years ago (with gnome!) is also still very useful and would probably not demand more resources than xp. The question was

• acqq 16y ago
  > why is it legitimate in this argument to use an old version of windows but nut an old version of linux Again, please don't change the topic, we are talking about Gnome, not about Linux in general. Linux kernel runs on my router with 16 MB RAM without any problems. Gnome is simply made without enough attention for configurations with limited resources, it's just so. There are other managers, of course. That's why huertanix mentioned XFCE. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_d... Footprints (at the time of the writing): GNOME: ~180 MB, Xfce: ~15 MB