On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Jason Hsu wrote:

> The bloatware of Ubuntu is enough to scare me off.  Linux Mint Debian 
> Edition with GNOME feels faster with only 512 MB of RAM than X/Ubuntu 
> feels with 2 GB of RAM.  Ubuntu has finally caught up with Windows when 
> it comes to hardware requirements.


Have you tried Lubuntu?  It's Light Ubuntu, I guess.  It was mentioned in 
the article.  I haven't tried it and know nothing that wasn't in the 
article.

Mike