Before we begin, here's what XFce's website has to say about itself: XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. It's based on the GTK+ toolkit version 2.
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Mind you, performance improved between KDE 2.x and KDE 3.x. I assume you mean KDE 3.x. I've ran KDE 2.x on a P2-400 + 128 MB RAM for quite a while and the performance was "acceptable".
"XFCE - Minimum: P133 with 32mb ram"
For XFce4 i can confirm this. Though the browser will run slowly (no matter wether you use Opera, Galeon or Mozilla Firefox).
(No, it is a DE.)
"KDE - Minimum: P2-300 with 128mb ram"
Mind you, performance improved between KDE 2.x and KDE 3.x. I assume you mean KDE 3.x. I've ran KDE 2.x on a P2-400 + 128 MB RAM for quite a while and the performance was "acceptable".
"XFCE - Minimum: P133 with 32mb ram"
For XFce4 i can confirm this. Though the browser will run slowly (no matter wether you use Opera, Galeon or Mozilla Firefox).