Memory economical Linux installation?

[Omer Zak]

I was contacted by someone, who has an old laptop with 192MB memory, and
wants to install Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) on it.

I advised him to first upgrade the memory to at least 512MB.

However, as an alternative to upgrading the laptop, I'd like to know if
and which distributions and desktops being actively maintained are
economical in memory usage yet provide X-Window in some form.

Thanks,
--- Omer



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My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory;
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