[SATLUG] Distro for Ancient Laptop

[Mike Ester]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:29:45PM -0500, Ernest de Leon wrote:
>> Everyone,
>>
>>   I have an ancient gateway solo 1100 laptop...the specs are something in
>> the neighborhood of PII 450mHz....192 RAM but some goes to video (I think 4
>> MB), a 6 GB HDD etc etc...max 800x600 resolution....I tried a few small
>> distros and none seemed to work just right...i finally did a Debian net
>> install and built on top of that.  It actually runs ok with Gnome on it.  I
>> was wondering if anyone else had a laptop of this area (Early Paleozoic or
>> Mesozoic i believe) that they have a stable and quick distro on.  I prefer
>> the super light WMs but Gnome would be great if the super light WMs are too
>> primitive.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ernest
>> -- 
>>     
Try Puppy Linux:

http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1

It's lightweight (like DamnSmallLinux), but has some cool features you 
may like.