I'm running SuSE 8.0 Pro on a Celeron 766 with 256 MB RAM. I have onboard graphics using 8MB RAM. I use my box for a little bit of everything - but I'm not a gamer (I do play Half Life from time to time and I want to see if I can set Quake 2 up on Linux) but I do edit video.

Will I get more benefit from adding more memory ( 256MB in one slot and one of my current 128MB in the other) or will a 32MB graphics card have more effect on performance?

Thanks for thinking about this!!

What kind of performance are you looking for ?

I have a 400mhz Celeron machine with 128 Megs of ram and only a 8 meg video card and it works just fine. You wouldn't see much a difference in getting a video card with more memory, well if your not going to game that is. If you do plan on getting memory, go with actual memory, but depending on what you want to increase in speed or performance it all depends.
You could probably just do some customizing, some cutbacks of services on your machine to speed it up overall.

Let us know.

You could also install fluxbox, a desktop that uses very little resources, and run your progs from there.

Already using Flux.
Maybe I should just buy a usb Scanner and leave the memory alone - I've never got my parallel port scanner to work.

I went from 128 mb to 384 mb and didn't see much (if any) performance improvement for regular stuff.
I did that because I wanted to allocate 64 mb to my onboard video and with 64 mb left for linux things do get slow.