At 13:01 02/03/2005 -0800, John Oliver wrote: >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? 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.
I'm using Puppy Linux <http://www.goosee.com/puppy> on a laptop with 80MB RAM and a Pentium 133 processor. It has Firefox, AbiWord, text editors, a few games, and networking. Everything runs directly from RAM so it's surprisingly quick. User data is stored on disk or can be kept on a USB device. The whole distribution is only about 50MB and runs as a live-CD so give it a try. Gus -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
