On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:06:01 +0000, Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I never tried out Enlightenment. Since it's a bit of a chore to install
> it, I'd rather ask first: is it more or less resource-hungry than XFCE?
> I'm looking for something that could do well on some legacy (PIII-500 and
> less) machines.
>
> cheers,
>
> Niki

I've run enlightenment in the form of Elive. I've also tried it and xfce
on several other computers. I believe enlightenment is the 'lighter' of
the two. E17 is still under development - e16 seems quite solid. On a
P3-500, I'd probably look to running Gnome, myself. We have four old
Compaqs at the local library running Ubuntu (I think they may be about
750mhz) and they cope quite well.