Thank you all. Jeffrey, I have seen people using Gimp, Inkscape and Blender on the same configuration (1.7GHz, Celeron + 256MB RAM) but on Windows - though Blender renders are, of course, slow - Blender itself is not. It's only the distros and the Windows Mangers that are continuously adding more bloat with each release.
A.l.e., thanks for letting me know about the goodness of Debian. I'll try Debian this way if that doesn't take too much time. Thanks. Your eeepc example is an extremely good one - good enough to make me consider using Debian this way. Alberto, Ubuntu is too heavy. I tried it a couple years back. The equivalent Fedora version's performance was agreeable but Ubuntu was tooooooo heavy and slow on this lowly machine. Thanks for telling me about LXDE. In case, list users are interested, I found the following light and tight distros: Damn Small Linux, Tiny Core Linux, SLAX, Vector Linux, Slackware, DeLi Linux, SliTaz Linux, and Puppy Linux. -- Best regards, Asif
