About a year and a half ago I tried out about a dozen "light" linux distros on a really crappy old Compaq my dad had picked up for a couple bucks. I think it h

About a year and a half ago I tried out about a dozen "light" linux distros on a really crappy old Compaq my dad had picked up for a couple bucks. I think it had 128 MB of RAM. (Maybe 256?) Crunchbang was one of only two distros that ran well, and the other one (puppy) was hideously ugly. If you need a graphical linux desktop on a machine where memory is limited, you should give Crunchbang a try. (As an aside, there was one "lightweight" distro that used the Ubuntu installer, which had a higher memory requirement than the distro itself. I suggested that maybe this be mentioned on the requirements page, but the developer said he didn't see the point. >.<)