I sometimes think that a fun project would be "8.04 forever": something that keeps ubuntu 8.04 LTS going for the rest of time. Specifically its memory requirements. That's because: Last night I tried taking a discarded "windows 2000 vintage" computer (1/2 gig RAM), putting tiny core linux on it, and then using tiny core's mechanism for installing the firefox that they provide, which is presumably a low-resource version. The result was dreadful: you use firefox and it immediately uses all RAM. Even a 1gig machine cannot work with current versions. Now the standard advice given is "don't use a very old distro for low-RAM machines since it will miss security and other bug fixes; you should instead use a modern distro that's tailored for low resource". The problem is that people will want a browser that's featureful enough (i.e. not dillo or any other simple html renderer). Today I looked at qupzilla, but I have not yet tried it on a low-resource machine. I suspect that a lot of the problem lies in interactions with the X server, buffers, offscreen pixmaps, and many other things I know only a bit about. Anyone have any real knowledge on low-resource browsing?