I have a Celeron 333 MHZ processor and 96 mb of ram. I've used X-Windows on Mandrake 7.2 and it's too slow. Can anyone recommend me a fast distro for celeron?

Please be a bit more specific as to 'too slow'. Are you speaking of program load times, or Xwindows perfomance, or both? I do know that mandrake 7.2 recommended install method, sets disk access at a max of ata/33, even when you are working in ata/66 in windows (you have to fine tune this manually). The other thing may be your Celeron, which uses PC66 SDRAM or worse EDO. It could also be lack of RAM, though I doubt it, in this case. I have 256 MB PC100 in my AMD K6-2/500 system, yet only 64 MB is recognized (that install method again). Yet, my mandrake 7.2 fairly screams. It could be as simple as my cpu is outperforming the celeron. You could try going to a faster celeron if your motherboard supports it. I can't suggest a faster distro, as I have only worked with Mandrake.

Mandrake 7.2 can only handle 64 megs of RAM ?! Wasn't that bug fixed way back in 1997 ?

Memory is rooted in Mandrake, dectects 32 on my computer, have 64.

I used Mandrake 7.2 on a Celeron 333 and it flies. It might just be your setup. Try playing around with some settings.

It flies? have you ever used another OS?

I don't know robbo are you starting to just make things up?? (relax I'm kidding) seriously though I got 192MB and mandrake sees it all.