Small Footprint Distro

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:22:17 -0700
AZ Pete <az_pete at 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