OT: What to use on a PIII in Bulgaria?

[Peter Alcibiades]

I'd not use Xubuntu out of the box - Distrowatch this week has a nice piece 
showing that its very much more resource intensive, like in some cases 
10x,  than Xfce on Debian.  

One could do a custom Xubuntu install and leave out all the fat.  In which 
case a barebones Lenny install will be more stable and no more trouble.

But surely the logical choice for a PIII is not Xfce, Gnome or KDE, but 
Fluxbox, and maybe not even Debian or Ubuntu, but Puppy with one of the 
minimalist WMs, Fluxbox or JWM for instance.  A barebones Debian with 
Fluxbox or JWM will be quite fast.  Slax is also not bad, a bit more 
featured than Puppy and comes with Fluxbox which you can use instead of 
the stripped down KDE which is the default.

Xfce is a bit lighter weight than Gnome or KDE, but there is not a huge 
amount in it, and Fluxbox beats all three by a mile.  Puppy is brilliant 
for low end machines.  There is a minimalist Fluxbox Ubuntu, Fluxbuntu.  
Might be worth considering also if one really wants to stay with Ubuntu.

Peter