My suggestion for the OP is Setup Ubuntu then replace GNOME with more lighter window manager, Openbox is my personal suggestion. Might take a little time to get used to and will need some tweaking, but its very efficient and very customizable when you have all set and done. Openbox only have a single configuration folder, so you can copy this setups to as many installations you want. I've used this setup on a P4 with 1GB and its gets noticably faster.
You can find my configuration files here: http://github.com/tmahmood/vimrc_config/tree/master Running VS2008 in PII machine sounds too much. It would have a hard time running Windows XP. Are you sure? Mahmood -- Ubuntu Bangladesh | http://ubuntu.linux.org.bd [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
