Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 21:46 UTC
"For years, the lightweight Xfce has been a popular desktop environment for Linux distributions running on older hardware, thanks to its lower demand on resources as compared to KDE and GNOME; it's an ideal desktop for machines with less than 256MB of memory. Until recently, however, using Xfce was a little laborious, but with its latest release last month, Xfce is a much more usable desktop environment."
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2006-11-18
XFCE is very light out of the box but it can be even lighter.
Without Composite, without icons on desktop and several other parts it can be really cut to its minimum and look great at the same time:
http://vermaden.proplayer.pl/gfx/screenshots/xfce-light.png
the only 3 processes that need to run to get most functionality are:
xfwm4
xfce4-panel
xfce4-menu-plugin
Great for old boxes and also for those who do not use/do not want to use all features.
I have even wrote short howto to easy achieve that:
http://bsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47695