I'm looking for a full distro(web browser, package manager, music player, etc.) that will run on a k6-2 350 mhz with 60mb ram(64 - 4 for the onboard video). any seggestions on good distributions? I use pclos on my laptop and love it, so preferably something close to that or slackware(another of my favorites).

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Hello there,
I have a similar computer.
a) I increased from 64MB to 3x 256MB: this was good and not too expensive; =65 Euros (1x256 MB could have been enough? increase your memory in any case.. if possible.. if the economical situation allow it.. if not, you will have to use much more your brain than me)
b) I installed DamnSmallLinux: forget it; no active support exists
c) I installed PuppyLinux: forget it; too fat
d) I installed TinyCoreLinux: good (still have to work on it)
e) I will try antiX (from MEPIS): I dont know how it looks. Probably not bad. I have a good feeling.
And perhaps one time in a rainy day: debian light (lxde desktop)
I have GNOME in a laptop: forget it! ugly.. fat.. this is like going to a restaurant and eating 5 steaks 10 drinks.. and you ask yourself why you dont feel so quick and not so good... (for my user account in that laptop, I used lxde: nice, slim, fresh).
Good luck.
Pascal

For a recently obtained Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 laptop (PII, 300MHz I think, 192MB RAM) I went looking around for something
to put on that. Though I'm a long-time Slackware guy I wanted to check out others and wound up with Arch Linux.
Couldn't be happier with it.
There's a section or two in their wiki about lightweight apps, window managers, and desktops which helps when dealing with
old machines.
Easy to keep updated, too.
Since my screen size is limited to 800x600 (not much room to work with in X) I plan to use mostly console-based apps.

You can use any distro you want, you will just need to install the minimal base and then install a light desktop environment/window manager on top of that.

I've used Debian+openbox with great success.

I agree - Debian is one of the best distros out there. They seem to be very stringent. They apparently don't test with old hardware (I've seen some boot time lag on some of their newer releases). I'd suggest building a custom kernel and/or modifying Debian's init stripts if things like Udev take too long to execute at boot time.

As far as window managers, if you're really sensitive to performance, there's always JWM. It has very minimal features, but makes it a point to link against only the X11 (Xorg) libraries. I've seen performance problems with GTK 2.0+ (as compared to 1.2) on older computers, but just about everything is linked against GTK 2.0+ in any newer distro, so I try to live with it. If GTK 2 performs ok on your box, you have plenty of options for lite window managers - ICEWM, OpenBox, etc have more features (though are a little slower) than JWM.

If you're still not satisfied, you can always build your own using Linux From Scratch. It uses all of the standard (e.g, GNU) packages and a great learning process, but unfortunately takes a very long time to paste from their PDF file into your script and test. The advantage of this over an automated "build from source" distro is you can control the libraries you link against. You can use uClibc buildroot or crosstool-ng to automate some of the toolchain build process if you want to go the "from scratch" route.

crunchbang might be a nice option for you