Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Oct 2007 19:23 UTC, submitted by abhaysahai
A review of Linux Mint Celena. "I think Celena is a breath of fresh air. It is the best GNOME distribution I have ever used. The artwork is simply amazing, I think PCLinuxOS must take a hint or two from Celena. Strong emphasis is given to integrating the theme with applications. I can see the hard work Mint developers have put behind custom applications like Mint Menu, MintUpload, MintAssitant and Mint Control Center. They have done a commendable job and made our lives easy. They have not followed the trend and have included KDE applications, wherever they felt the need."
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I will qualify this with I do not feel that XFCE is all that lean anymore. It used to be, but I have found that the current release of XFCE has memory usage comparable to Gnome. It is reasonable to expect XFCE desktop install to run in 256 MB of RAM, but I think it is a bit low for a bootable CD environment with XFCE/GNOME/KDE.
Blackbox or fluxbox as a bootable CD would be better at 256 MB RAM, but the reality is desktop applications do not optimize for low memory usage as much in recent times. So it would not expect it a *box distro to do much better once you started opening more then a couple apps (depending on what they were).