6.4 vs 7.3 vs 8.0 for Via C3 Desktop

shepper

shepper

I have an old Asus C3 Terminator that is seriously speed challenged. I would essentially like run a light weight desktop on it that supports freedesktop menu standards (lxde or xfce).

My question is which version of FreeBSD i386 should I try? I have heard that 7 stable is fastest but that may be as a server with multiple cpu/cores.
 
@shepper

I have recently played with FreeBSD 8.0 in VirtualBox to check how small amount of RAM can it run, with SWAP DISABLED it run on 32MB RAM on pure console and X11 on 40MB RAM (without hald/dbus). With SWAP ENABLED it would need even less RAM.

Get 8.0 and do not look back.
 
I'll third the 8.0 recommendation. It's the fastest release since the death of the 4.x line for me (though honestly I don't have any overlapping equipment to test that hypothesis).
 
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