[nflug] Linux for a (very) old notebook

[K O]

My first thought - Puppy Linux.  It's one of those live distros that 
fits (or at least used to fit) on one of those business card sized CDs. 
  I think there are provisions for HDD installation, and it may have a 
2.6 kernel by now.  Otherwise I'd recommend looking for a distro with a 
minimalistic GUI like After Step or XFCE (the Windows Explorer like 
shell, I believe).

Joe pisze:
> Hi.  I just got a cheap notebook - very old.  It's a Celeron running Win
> 98 (until I convert it to Linux - hopefully.)  (Sony Vaio PCG-N505VE
> 333MHz, 128MB Ram, 6GB HDD).
> 
> My old desktop is still working fine with Mandrake 9.1 and I have
> kubuntu gutsy on my recent notebook, so those are the distros I am
> familiar with (both use kde).
> 
> This "new" notebook can't handle a latest-greatest distro.
> 
> What distro(s) would be a good match for this oldie?
> 
> I plan to use it primarily for writing text documents with OOo writer
> and for web browsing with Firefox.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated - especially about which distros might do the best
> job of hardware detection.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Joe
> 
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