You can use virtually any distro as your desktop. Try to stay away from de's like gnome & kde if you want lightweight. Try to get a feel for what you need and throw away the apps you won't be running. Get a small wm. I'm currently running debian sarge on a piii 500 128 with fluxbox, conky, links, opera, eterm, gaim, abiword, irssi, vim, nano and some other minor apps.
Try to practice on live cds http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php or get a distro and experiment. In the end it's really *your* choice :) Goodluck. Tell us your success story if ever you get a good system running for you. -- Jed R. Mallen GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 http://jed.sitesled.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
