> This would seem to be running on the very edge of hardware: I'm surprised > that anything graphical will run at all in 1GB of total memory and 64M > of video RAM.
My old Thinkpad X30 is still quite functional (that's the machine I use to plug into LCD projectors to display slides during talks and classes). So, I can confirm that 1GB of RAM is still enough to run XFCE in Debian testing (the PDFs are displayed via doc-view-mode in Emacs). Firefox is too sluggish on that machine, OTOH. Stefan