On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:50:10PM +0100, James Finch wrote: > secondhand Apricot SL550, 75MHz Pentium, 0.84GB hard drive. 32 MB ram > what version of debian should be used? > am completely ignorant Any Debian version should work with that hardware. The only limitation would be how many packages you can install before you fill up the hard drive (you should have a reasonably-sized swap partition, 64 MB or larger).