Small Footprint Distro

[Alex LeDonne]

On 11/20/06, 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

I'm running Debian with a 2.4 kernel, icewm as my light(er)weight gui,
on a Pentium-133, 48M RAM, 1.3GB disk. Slow, but usable as an X
terminal, console, etc.

-A