[SATLUG] Distro for Ancient Laptop

[Dennis Myhand]

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
I have successfully run Libranet 2.7 on a PII 366 Celeron Laptop with 
128 megs.  I do not see any reason why Debian would not run if you used 
one of the lesser-resource-using window managers like Ice or XFCE or 
afterstep 2.  They are not "cutting edge" but I never had any problem 
with them.  HTH, Dennis in Victoria