A few days ago, eWeek reported

The slow adoption of Vista is giving IBM and Linux distributors an opportunity to convince enterprises that there are good desktop software alternatives to Windows. IBM, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat will work with hardware makers to market custom-designed PCs preloaded with Linux and Lotus word processing and collaboration software.

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What do you do when your aging computer starts slowing you down so much that Ubuntu seems to crawl? Sure, you could try out XFCE via xubuntu-desktop, but there’s also a new kid on the block.  Enter LXDE.

Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

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