xfce in the hands of anyone other than ubuntu developers is a lightweight desktop, try distros based on that. icewm, fluxbox, and the other super-lightweight WM's tend to be *very* minimalistic, almost alien-looking, in my experience.
According to distrowatch.com, development of the distribution I once got working on that class of machine (Morphix 0.5 LightGUI) has been discontinued, but their website still exists and you can still download the iso's. You'd just be on your own -- or dependent on general advice from places like this -- if you got it running. --- In [email protected], Donald Cooley <dfcoo...@...> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:47:46PM -0000, mike wrote: > > I have an 1997 model IBM Activa. It's specs: AMD P2 clone 233mhz > > processor,32 mgs ram. > You'll have greater success with a *window manager* like blackbox, fluxbox, or > something minimalistic. Nothing graphics intensive for sure. If this old computer doesn't have a > cd rom maybe you could hook up an external cd rom because debian has a > small (I think under 200MB) netinstall cd. Heck, debian can even be > installed from floppy disk. Others have given you good > options too. What the heck, try 'em all if you're feeling frisky. > -- > Regards, > Donald Cooley > Registered Linux user 444909 > +-------------------------------------------+ > |Lady Luck brings added income today. Lady | > |friend takes it away tonight. | > +-------------------------------------------+ > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
