OK here it is, I am still a newbie, playing with some different distros and stuff. Apart from my "real" job I build new systems and repair old ones for local folks to make a little extra money. I have a good friend who wants to go online and maybe buy a printer soon and print documents and stuff. So they gave me the old system they inherited and asked me to set it up.

Pentium 180
64 RAM
2 gig HD
CD
floppy
56K dialup modem

I have used Damn Small Linux and it runs good, connects, very nice. However I am curious if there is a better distro for them. I want something to put on the HD, be easy to surf and go into a word processor. and thats it....any ideas......

thanks in advance

You can use Slackware. But Slackware does not come have OpenOffice in its distribution disks. Mandrake/RedHat/Fedora may be heavy on your hardware.
You can use Samba for file and print services.

Peanut Linux will do the trick. It's somewhere on www.linuxiso.org. It's lightweight, small, and I believe comes with Open Office or Koffice. Go to the LinuxISO.org site and click on By Letter and select J-Q. There will be a link there, I think.