I've found that the modern Debian-based distros work the best on older hardware (haven't used Slack--heard it is a pain to set up). I have a P233 with 256 megs running Knoppix 3.8 (hard disk install), and it works quite well and is even very useable with KDE--but no speed demon. Xfce is my choice for that machine. I tried various Mandrake/Mandriva versions, SuSe, RH, Ubuntu Warty, Overclockix, 3.4/3.6/3.8 Knoppix and Debian Woody w/2.4 and 2.6 kernels on that machine. Every one of the Deb-based distros worked well, even with 2.6 kernels. The 9.x Mandrakes and 2.4 kernels were useable, but not very, with KDE, and SuSe was impossibly slow with the 2.6 kernel. Ditto for the 2.6 kernel Mandriva versions. Just my experience, for what it's worth.
I have mepis 3.3 going on the second machine at present. Mandriva did install, but I wanted to look at other distros, just to see what people are talking about. I have ubuntu and knoppix 3.7 to try as well as CCUX and an old vectorlinux. The garden and housework are suffering ...
Xfce - is it easy to use? It's instead of KDE?
Rosemary
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