I ahve an old NEC Ready 9625 I bought new back in dec. of 1996. Came with 95a. I want to mess around with linux and was woundering what linux would be best for it? I have Damn Small Linux but I don't like the was it installs... and I need a graphical interfase. Any ideas? I have Linspire 4.5, Freespire 1.0, Knoppix 5.0.1, and Ubuntu 6.10 downloaded. Will any of these run on this paper weight? BTW, I have a 6 gig drive install. And the machine has an old EISA Boca 33.6K Modem thats about 2 feet long I'd like to use (My internet is only 24K here). Thanks Jim

ZipSlack, DamnSmallLinux, Puppy Linux..... Anything else ideally needs a P3 and 256mb mem.

since you are using dial-up I would give puppy a try, I really liked puppy's performance on dial-up. larry

i run linux on a old machine, 400mhz 512MB & prefer it to my 1 GB Windows ME machine. I have tried several distros & 3 have fast speed loading web pages even on my dialup www.allvantage.com . Libranet 2.7 Mephis VectorLinux 5 (my favorite) use a lightweight window manager (XFCE or IceWM). http://tinyurl.com/24z3lw

Well, I'm using puppy linux.... but not on the old machine i wanted to use it on. it will not find my old EISA Boca hardware modem. and I no longer have my serial external Zoom 56K modem.... I'm using this on my newer compaq with 1 gig ram, AMD xp 3200+ and a Geforce4 Ti 4400 AGP card with a agree winmodem. i'm suprised it has support for Lucent "Agree" winmodems... Guess I'll ahve to ebay for an older external serial modem for my old paper weight.... thanks guys. I like this far better than DamnSmallLinux... If only I can get usb working...