Hey, I have a 486 that I would like to install linux on. It has a 200mb hard drive and 16mb ram. I was wondering what distribution would be best for it. I am only looking for something that I could run word processing on. Thanks in advance

Oh yes, I also want to have a GUI. AND I looked at some other posts but there was not real answer given as to what would run relatively fast on a system like that.

Peanut linux looks like it _might_ fit. 200mb is pretty tight though. You have to use a windowmanager like fvwm simply because its small and lightweight and should hopefully run acceptably on your box. For word processing, AbiWord is great. Its full featured with a small footprint. If Peanut is too big then try ZipSlack from Slackware and then add the fewest components of X you can, just the servers for your vid card(read the docs at slackware), and the fonts you need (fonts take up a lot of space). Then add fvwm abiword and hopefully you'll still have some room left over for the docs you write. One thing on Abiword, it might require some gnome libs, I don't recall. If it does it'll push you over 200mb if you haven't gone over already.

Here's a small distro- http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/ozma/mulinux/index.htm May be just the ticket. PS I'm running RH 6.2 on a 486dx2/66 with 32 megs of ram and 800meg hdd using the WindowMaker Xwindows windows manager.

Hey give ZipSlack a try. It's a SlackWare release that is made to fit on an 86mb or more harddrive/removable disc! It only takes up 86mb. www.slackware.com

Thanks, I will give it a shot