What I really want to talk about here is Lubuntu. It uses the recent LXDE desktop environment which is extremely fast and blows away the slugginsh XFCE which used to be known for it's speed. Lubuntu only needs 64MB of memory and will bring those really old computers back to life. It has Abiword and Gnumeric instead of the huge, memory stealing OpenOffice.org.
The whole OS starts in about 10 seconds on my average computer and almost everything starts instantly. It has PCManFM instead on the slow Nautilus but some people may like Nautilus better because of all the features that it has. It has Gpaint instead of GIMP, Google Chromium instead of Firefox and GMplayer which starts very fast.
OK, enough blabber, here's some screenshots:
