<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/24/2013 01:16 PM, Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:51F00BDB.1090102@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> This is a great discussion, thanks to all who contributed. It is also timely for me because support for my beloved Ubuntu 10.04LTS is coming to an end, and sooner or later I'll have to switch to something else. I don't care for Unity and Gnome 3.0 is too resource-hungry for my P4 2.4ghz machines. Any suggestions? </blockquote> I use debian 7.0 (Wheezy). During the install select the base system ONLY. after reboot install kdebase (or kde-base I don't remember exactly right now) and kdm. Doing this you don't get all of the programs / applications you never use. After that install whatever else you want: synaptic, iceweasel, icedove, libreoffice, etc... Patrick </body> </html>