Recommend a very light Linux distribution for very old computer 447

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:35:16 -0800, hdneto17

Can you put another 256M into the machine?, with 384 you can run anything. I did the same thing for my sister, I gave her my old Dell 500MHz PIII laptop with 384M of RAM. I put FC4 on it which works fine. Something like Damn Small would perform better but it's a lot easier for me to give her help if she's running the same distro as me. Which leads me to another point, it's easier to support a person with limited computing skills with Linux then it is with any other OS. My sister has minimal computing skills, she can do e-mail and web browsing and a little word processing but that's it. She doesn't understand the concept of an OS or even of a file system. Her old machine was a Celeron laptop with Win98 on it. It was a dangerous environment for her because she would get malicious viruses which did things like dial out on her modem and call 900 numbers to run up charges. When that happened I put FC4 on my old laptop, set up the Gnome task bar so that she could launch Firefox, Evolution and Open Office from buttons, and gave the laptop to her. The other thing I did was set up ssh with my public key inetc-ssh-authorizedkeys, and I set up an account on DynDNS.org so that I could access her system remotely. Now when she needs something configured, I just ssh into her system and do it for her (I live in Mbuttachusetts, she lives in Chicago).