Welcome to LQ, Tangle.
What Window Manager are you running? If it's KDE, then there's your answer! I don't know about Gnome (I don't particularly like it, so I tend not to use it), but I know that WMs like BlackBox, FluxBox, SawFish, etc, are fairly resource friendly.
Under Mandrake, if you're loging in with the GUI login prompt, just select another WM; if you're loging in to the console (text), then edit your ~/.xinitrc file and run a different WM.
Under RH, I think there's a program called SwitchDesk, or something, that should let you change WM quite easily.
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