begin  quoting John Oliver as of Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:01:03PM -0800:
> I have a P II 266 4GB disk 96MB RAM machine I want to give to someone
> for her son to use.  I just threw away a bunch of old CDs, including
> ancient Linux CDs and the NT Workstation 4.0 that is supported on this
> box :-)  What distro will result in a decent experience on this
> hardware? 

Any distro that gives you fairly fine-grained control over what
is installed, I'd guess.  SUSE/Debian/Slackware....

>            I have a feeling I'm not going to want KDE or Gnome... maybe
> some really lightweight window manager so it can have a browser, word
> processor, maybe graphics, some games, etc.

TWM!

-Stewart "Console mode - ya got lynx, vim, aalib, nethack...." Stremler
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