Re: Small Footprint Distro

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:22:17 -0700
AZ Pete <az_pete@cactusfamily.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My brother has an old laptop he'd like to put Linux on. The specs of
> the system are:
> 300Mhz processor
> 256Mb Ram
> 5Gb hard disk
>
> I'm very familiar with Redhat, Suse and the other "big boys". But
> these are simply to resource intensive for this machine and run very
> sluggish. We've even tried Knoppix with little success.
>
> Any recommendations of a small footprint distro that would run well
> on this type of system with a GUI interface?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

Peter,

ZenWalk might work for you.

Dennisk
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