[Nottingham] Distro reccomendations for older PC

[Alan Pope]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:14:08PM +0100, Stella Fan wrote:
> This is my first post to the NLUG, so be gentle with me!
> 
> I've got an old PC here that I want to install Linux on to play around 
> with. Its a home build Athlon  XP 1800+, with 512Mb RAM, 80Gb maxtor, 
> Radeon 9200SE. So nothing very special. It will be fitted with a 
> wireless card I've got to hand, which is based on the Railink chipset, 
> so there are native linux drivers available.
> 

Heheh "old PC" :)

I've got Ubuntu running on my wifes pc which is in daily use at about the
same spec as that. Of course she mainly uses it for mail/web/office.

Cheers,
Al.