Small Footprint Distro

[Eric "Shubes"]

AZ Pete 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've heard nice things about puppy linux too.

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-Eric 'shubes'