I have an old IBM Thinkpad with a 6Gb hard drive and 192Mb RAM. It was upgraded from 64Mb which it had originally.

I normally use Ubuntu but even that is a little slow on it. Perhaps it's a Gnome thing, I don't know.

I need a distro that has two basic requirements.

1) Something that performs fast enough on a P2 300Mhz to be usable

2) Something where adding the WPA_Supplicant is relatively easy because I only want it for surfing wirelessly.

I have not downloaded it yet, but so far Mepis Lite and XUbuntu top my list based on specs and experience with the bigger brothers of those distros.

Robert

Try Slackware or Vector Linux with a minmalist gi like fluxbox.

I don't think I'm adept enough for Slackware, but I'll take a look at Vector.

Thanks,
Robert

Don't sell yourself short, Slackware isn't all that difficult. Give it a try. As for Vector, it's based on Slackware. Works real well on a 450 MHz desktop. Might also want to take a look at DSL. Lots of people swear by it.

F_M

Debian-based distros are fine, but I second the recommendation of going to a lightweight WM. Fluxbox, icewm, etc run well on laptops with your specs.
If Ubuntu otherwise works for you, try switching WMs instead.

Hi

i have an old laptop with P3 550 & 128ram, 6GB hd. i loaded Red Hat 9 ages ago with icewm as a window manager, which only consumes 45mb of ram on boot up. KDE or Gnome took the whole 128 and started to swap immediately. i was a litle lost in the icewm user interface at first but after reading through the help files i managed to tweak the main menu to my own specs. it was a great way to learn more about linux and revitalise what essentially was a computer destined for the scrap heap.
regards
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