[ale] Best Choice for under-powered System

[John M Trostel]

I've cobbled together a system for my son from an old 100 MHz Pentium
(I) wt. 64 MB of RAM.... 4 M of that RAM is used by the on-board SIS
video chip.  It's got a whopping 1 GB HDD, a cd drive and a 3.5"
floopy.  An old SMC 10BT ethernet card rounds out his $0 cost system. 
(Actually $5, as I needed a PS2/AT keyboard converter dongle.)

Right now I have the system running RH 7.1. Do you realize how many
upgrades there are out for the stock 7.1 distro now? ;)

He needs a system that will run Netscape/Mozilla/Galeon with Java
support.  It barely runs on the system set up now.  (Mozilla and Java). 
Would I be better off running Debian on this box? (Leaner, meaner, 
slightly less than glacial...) Or even something like Vector Linux,
which is supposedly for just such a situation? The ISO of Vector I
burned seems to have trouble... Has anyone else tried Vector or another
small distro for old machines that includes X, a nice windowing system,
and a java-enabled browser?

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John M Trostel <jtrostel at mindspring.com>