Half a gig of RAM with a Centrino M processor (one core) was a pretty solid spec for Gnome 2/KDE3 what 10 perhaps 15 years ago? Time passes. My take on the Old

Half a gig of RAM with a Centrino M processor (one core) was a pretty solid spec for Gnome 2/KDE3 what 10 perhaps 15 years ago? Time passes. My take on the Old Computer Challenge is actually using GUI applications (Seamonkey/OpenOffice and my new discovery the Gnumeric spreadsheet - fast for modest simulations). Groff is one of those things hidden in plain sight I agree. I did the K.Mandla thing with Debian for a bit but never got into the bespoke kernel builds as I had more capable hardware (P3 with 256Mb RAM). I went the other way though and now use Slackware which is pretty maximalist (although you don't actually need to enable all the processes).