[kukibl]

I perfectly understand what are you talking about, but I meant how light, fast and efficient can they be with default packages. Of course, it is always possible to rebuild something with additional optimizations, but that is not quite smart and logical, since it is much easier to simply switch to another distro.

I.e. I've read few months ago that many people used alternate Ubuntu install CD and they built it manually (by using APT) installing just necessary stuff and results were quite amazing. That is why I'm interested if there are similar experiences with OpenSuSE.

Also, I forgot to mention RAM usage:
1. sidux install with KDE 4.2.4 and ktorrent running 3 torrents, took only (believe it or not) 130 MB (I used free -m command).
2. for comparision, Fedora with KDE 4 and without additional software running is starting basically with 250 MB.