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I have an ACER TRAVELMATE 4002WLMi, with 512Ram , 1.6Gz, ATI radeon 9700/64Mb. I have windows xp but it's killing me since it's always crashing when I am using only....FIREFOX! I've tried: -Slitaz (Problem with Wi-fi is discouranging) -Porteus -Bodhi 2 -Lubuntu 10.10 -Slacko Puppy -Xubuntu 10.04

How can I optimize the machine I have? What should I do?

Thank you!

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XFCE is fairly light, though if you're really concerned about it, Mint + Fluxbox is a very lightweight partnership which does offer a lot of flexibility (at the cost of some simplicity).

Most of the lightweight distros like that are debian-based like Ubuntu is, so you should be in familiar territory apt-getting whatever you need, gimp, firefox and the like.

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