Xubuntu

[AlexJ]

@ AlexJ. An 800MHz system should be very nice considering my 450MHz laptop is running it ok without much waiting needed to complete most tasks. However if you could get the ram up to 256MB then the full version of Ubuntu would work perfectly well.

But then I could just as easily stick XP on it. It's a cheapo Duron 800MHz and old style pre-DDR RAM so I think the cut-down version would be easier on it, and I don't want to spend a penny on it. In fact not entirely sure why I'm doing it, just to try and justify keeping an old box around I guess.

[Harrison]

I know what you mean. It is hard to part with older computers that were once your main system, even though now they are just sitting there collecting dust 99% of the time.

[ppill]

Puppy Linux is brilliant! I use it on a system that was my very first PC which is roughly 10 years old (333MHz/128Mb).

I'd tried a dozen of other distros (Deli, Zenwalk, DSL, Vector, ARCH, CRUX, Feather... I could go on) but settled for Puppy.