I've just got an old Toshibra Libretto 100 miniture laptop as I'm travelling a lot and need to keep up on univeresity work. It's very old with the follow spec:

CPU: Pentium 166 MMX (stuck to this CPU)
RAM: 32mb (Can be upgraded to 64mb but no more)
HD: 2gb (can be upgraded)
NO CD ROM AND NO BOOTING FROM USB

I want to use it for basic word processing (MS Word compatability at a decent level is essential for Uni work here), web browsing (quite a lot of research, forums and blogging), Email and a bit of light HTML coding, FTP and very basic image viewing/editing (cropping/resizing/gama correction).

It currently has Win98 on it but the overheadeds of running the securfity fixes needed and the age of the OS I think makes this inefficient way of doing things, so would prefer a younger, lighter linux distro.

I have looked at the otpions and think Vector and Feather Linux may both be good distros to run on such a system, but would welcomes anyone elses take on which would be best, or if there is another alternative?

In addition this this I've also been looking at Deli Linux, and this seems a very good distro for older systems, would this be a good option?

IMHO Love Vector you can't go wrong, I had a few minor issues with feather it wouldn't boot that caused some greif...

Haven't tried Deli Linux so couldn't comment on that.. if you want to check out other lightweight Distros try:

Vector Linux 4.3
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/

SLAX Live CD
http://www.slax.org/

BeatrIX
http://www.watsky.net/

Elive:
http://www.elivecd.org/

you can find more here

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributi...Distributions/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/

Thanks for the links... am playing with DSL on it at the moment, and I'm really impressed with the speed and responsiveness of it.