Voyage Linux 6.1 might run well, its also Debian "Lenny" based... <a href="http://linux.voyage.hk/">http://linux.voyage.hk/</a> install xfce from there or take a look at fluxbox window manager with the rox filemanager I also agree with the DSL suggestion, Puppy is another tiny distro to try for win98 era machines <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Eberhard Roloff <<a href="mailto:tuxebi@gmx.de">tuxebi@gmx.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Chris Ross wrote: > I have the following hardware > Sony Picturebook PCG-C1XD > Pentium II 400 MHz > 128 MB Ram > 10Gb HDD > USB floppy > PCMCIA CD Drive > Display adapter Neomagic Magicmedia 256AV > Either you will be able to upgrade the Ram to at least 256GB and then use Xubuntu or even better something lighter like openbox or icewm. When DSL (damnsmall linux) fits your needs, then you might stay with 128mb. Another possibility: With 128mb (and more) you can run DSL fully from RAM and this will speed up your machine to something that you would never beleive. Lastly, if this is not possible my recommendation would be to simply use win 98. In my experience, as much as I hate to say it, there is no Linux that comes even near to the speed of win 98 on such a hardware. Not to mention the speed of Office 97 on Win 9x against OpenOffice on Linux on this hardware. Again it is sad to say, but nevertehless it is true. If you will carefully select your software you will even find modern browser/mail/antivirus software for W98. It gets more rare any day, but there still is good software, that you can use. kind regards Eberhard -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>