On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 22:52 +0000, cdr wrote: > a minimal de like fluxbox/pek written in raw xlib has much less > overhead. WinXP properly trimmed also has much less overhead than > either Gnome or KDE, as evidenced in how fast it can zip along on a > Celeron 500 This is why I qualified my response with "on a modern system"