What do you mean by lightweight? Are you trying to control install size,
ram usage, or just the general user experience?

The quickest way to improve performance is to drop Xorg and run without
a UI. If that doesn't meet your needs, I'd suggest looking at one of the
 many alternative desktop manager options like xfce, windowmaker, or
fluxbox.

If you want to control install size, you can look at DSL (which uses
windowmaker, iirc) or slax (which has a version that uses xfce).

--Tim

G. Scott Walters wrote:
> I've got a Dell Latitude C400 (1.2gHz / 800 mHz, 512 GB ram) that I
> want to get linux running on again. I had Ubuntu Edgy running on it,
> and it was fine, but I'm looking for something a little more
> light-weight. Ubuntu works great on my desktop, as I leave it on all
> the time, but powering up and powering down seem to take a LONG time
> on my laptop.
> 
> I could install Debian minimal install, but that's too easy. Any other
> smaller distros around? Anyone try DSL linux? What other stuff is out
> there?
> 

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