So far so good. This is basically the half way point of this short-holiday week and since work is crazy busy I haven’t been able to post about how it goes.
My test system is as follows:
AMD 3200XP
768MB DDR1 Memory
80GB IDE Harddrive
Nvidia FX5200 Graphics Card
Onboard Sound
Ideq Case (and mini-PSU)
Gnome feels very responsive for such a ’slow’ system and initially I wasn’t using the accelerated X video driver ad though the system was half decent so I’m guessing with the right video card this setup would be fine on a Pentium 3! So far it’s been pretty much eye opening as the last time I used Gnome, everything was heavy feeling and very slow. It seems unlike Microsoft, the coders actually optimized code over time - oh my, what a unique idea! 
For me, using Linux on the desktop again has been great, and thus far I feel like I am much more productive for work in this environment. Speaking of work, it’s calling so until later today!
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