Re: Linux distro for and older laptop?

Jerry Owens wrote:
> I have an older IBM Think Pad that I would like to load linux on. I
> wanted to know if anyone had a distribution they would recommend for an
> older machine, or if I should just install a stripped down mainstream
> distro such as Red Hat? The machine is a Pentium 2, 233mhz with 64MB of
> RAM and a 4GB hard drive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry

Two weeks ago I installed Slackware 10.2 on a Thinkpad a20m with 500Mhz,
64MB RAM, a 4GB harddisk and a Cisco wireless net connection. I equipped
it with a light window-manager (icewm) and gave it to a first-time
computer user. She's very happy with it.

(Needless to say, it really helped to compile a custom 2.4.31 kernel and
remove any unnecessary startup services. This reduced the boot time to
about 20s.)
.