Am Dienstag, dem 03. Nov 2009 schrieb David Gerard:
In my experience, the sticking point is not CPU, even a P-II does fine
- it's memory. KDE or GNOME are going to be a world of pain in 256MB,
you want at least 512MB and preferably as absolutely much as will physically fit (typically 1024MB on motherboards of the time). A smaller DE would of course be better.
The environment LXDE looks good: http://lxde.org/
As a practical usable machine, the main problem I find is that Firefox is way too fat these days.
Midori is fine: http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html