best lightweight linux distro???

razertazer · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:26

Hey
Ive recently acquired a IBM 365XD touchpad. Its ANCIENT, it has a 120mhz and 24mb ram. Its running 98, but i really want to change the OS

Any suggestions? ive tried DSL(damn small linux) but its even uglier than 98, and I didntlike the interface

Thanks a lot

razertazer · 7 Jan 2011 at 15:49

Thanks

ive heard of both, but because the IBM can only boot from PCMCIA disk drive, its a lot of effort!

Thing is, i tried Slitaz on an old desktop of mine, it wouldnt boot. But on a modern-day laptop it does, I then found out you need about 200mb ram to run it :s

How do I know what the minimum spec of a linux OS is? you reckon puppy will run on it?
many thanks for the help

razertazer · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:11

Thanks for the input guys!!

I think ill give basic linux a try. After all i only want basic word processing and web-browsing!

as a quick aside, why does it say "thug" under my name? im new to the whole forum thing

razertazer · 7 Jan 2011 at 16:23

MasterPlan1 said:
Run something veeeeeery simple on it, like Arch, and then build flux\black\openbox on it, that should *just* about be able to cope then. Good luck running anything apart from lynx and wget though... if you're lucky you may even be able to run a MUD!

That looks good, nice one!
I couldnt find sceenshots for either OS though, would be good to see what theyre like before install.

where would i find screenshots? a quick google yeilded nothing