It is very useable with Kde with 256Mb of Ram.

I went to 512MB, a lot better - about 125 MB Free Physical Memory left unused.

Linux EAT'S Memory!!!

When I ran it from CD w/256MB Memory - it was Slow, a lot quicker on HDD.

Gigabyte GA-7DXR w/ AMD XP 1600+ & 512MB MEM [PC266] & 40GB HDD (ATA100)