On 7/22/07, Telly Williams <twilliams001@elp.rr.com> wrote:
I saw this computer sitting in my friend's mom's house and asked to fix it for her (it didn't run at
all). I didn't anticipate the problems that I would face, mostly because I didn't know then what I now k
Apologies about that last message. it just went out on gmail without my ability to edit or add any new content. OOPS
I might be branded a heretic for this, but you might want to check out Absolute Linux for something like that. It's slack-based, but is optimized (I guess) for smaller, less-capabie machines. No kde/gnome (I guess you could add it) but uses rox-filer & icewm. I haven't really seen it though.
Actually, a good thing to do on machines like that is upgrade the RAM - because many distros these days won't even install on a machine with less than maybe 256 megs of RAM. A lot want >64 megs of RAM.
Of course, there's Damn Small Linux/ Puppy, those are small footprint distributions. I've tried both and Puppy is much more usable, IMHO.