Jon,
I saw a test of the various GUIs not long ago, and unfortunately XFCE has become far more memory-intensive than it was at first. If you wish to use a Ubuntu-based distro, you might try Lubuntu (LXDE GUI)...smaller memory footprint than Xubuntu.
One I had good success with on a netbook is Easy Peasey, by the way. I used it only briefly as I only was using the netbook for a few brief weeks before I returned home and it went to our son for use in his university program.
David
> I wanted to use crunchbang (#!) on my little eeePC but sadly it either
> failed to load to the SSD drive or failed to pick up the wifi (in
> Statler) for some reason that I could never fathom, so I opted for
> Xubuntu and set it up to at least "look" like #!, and it works like a
> dream. Smallish footprint, updated from 10.04 to 10.10 with no
> problems, just works.
>
> Anyway, that by way of an introduction, nice to be here, been
> following this group for a few months now, and really like some of the
> discussions. Most informative,
>
> The Wombat
> XUbuntu 10.10 on ASUS eeePC 901
>
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