Looking out for a lightweight distro for the heck of it is interesting. If you look at Distrowatch there are a lot of distros there and the name Crunch Bang just stood out for me so I had to click the link to its page. It is described as a faster Ubuntu.
What is interesting about Crunch Bang?

It happened to be based on Ubuntu so you have access to repositories. And the forums, as well. But of course there might be things that won’t apply to Crunch Bang because it is not an official fork of Ubuntu. …read more

A link to the LXDE site was on del.icio.us and I just had to click it because in this day and age, I sometimes get tired of eye candy. I like pretty desktop environments, surely but there are times when I just need to sit back and relax with simple and straightforward user interfaces. Here comes LXDE to people like me.
It uses Openbox as its window manager and other components like Leafpad (a text editor), Xarchiver, PCManFM as a file manager and other nifty apps to make the desktop experience great even for those who are using older …read more