[Sussex] Distro?

[John Crowhurst]

>> Hello  all!
>> I just got may hands on an old Toshiba lap-top (pentium mmx 100 meg).
>> RH8 runs on it verrrrrry slowly, I tried installing Peanut 9 with on
>> success. Have any of you chaps go any ideas as to witch distro I
>> should use? :-\
>>
>
> Well, you could say I'm a bit biased :) but I'd recommend Slackware.
> Mainly because it's a bit more lightweight overall than other distros.
> You can't really go too large with the one CD (assuming you're not
> wanting KDE/Gnome which is on the second CD).

Slackware is a good choice, I've been running it since my server was
running  on a 486/33!

> Whatever you do, try a lighter window manager if you want one at all.
> Try Xfce.

X generally comes with TWM, if you can stand it you could try one of the
*WM  things, like FVWM (which we used to run on our 90MHz BSD workstations
at Demon)

-- 
John