As I mentioned on the installfest list - I have been playing around with a few distros to find something that will run reasonably well on my P166MMX box with 64mb of ram - basically if it feels similar to the win98 it already runs I would be happy.

I have tried Knoppix, Caldera Open Office(2.2.x kernel)and Corel Linux, as well as ELX and Lycoris - and out these I like the ELX best - except that it causes the machine to either freeze (mouse pointer moves around the screen - but won't respond to clicks or to the keyboard) - or simply resets when I connect to the internet. It dials up fine and goes throught the authentication OK - but as soon as it connects pow, black screen or no responce (usually the former)- very frustrating!

Any ideas why this might happen.

BTW - I forgot to mention Caldera Open Office in the installfest post - I have used this quite a bit. Very easy install - one of the best I have used - especially hardware detection etc. Standard install is only 750mb disk space - maximum is 1.3gb. I like the mix of apps offered - I think it runs with KDE2.2 as standard. Very easy to set up and quite quick to click around etc. I just like the ELX better.





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