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I have an old Laptop with a 100Mhz Processor and 16MB of ram. It has an 800MB HDD and I am looking to put linux on it. Can someone suggest a build of linux that would work best with it and would be the easiest to use on it. Thanks all.
If you're looking for a full version of linux, and not a stripped down one, then I would suggest Slackware. You can still make a bunch of floppies and load it that way, or load a couple floppies with a network Kernel and load the rest over ethernet.
You could also follow this link and do what this guy did with vector linux.
This is not a Distro in the normal sense, is a project to install Linux on old machines, with scripts to install the necessary packages from RedHat CDs or through a network.
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