Linux for old laptop?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:35 -0400, fredex wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:31:47AM -0500, Chu Jeang Tan wrote:
> > My friend has the following laptop:
> > CPU: Pentium 2 266MHz
> > Memory: 256MB
> > Hard drive: 4gb
> > 
> > How would you setup a usable Linux system on this? It should be able
> > to run web browser, open office suite, IM, play MP3, various video
> > formats.
> > 
> > Is Fedora a good choice for low powered system?
> > 
> > I'd think gnome may be too heavyweight WM and KDE might be a better option.
> > 
> > Note that this is for a novice and probably would prefer to configure
> > stuffs through UI rather than text editors.
> 
> While it may be possib le toi nstall FC6 or 7 on such a machine, it
> would be very tight for disk space,
No. The critical component would be memory (RAM), not diskspace. 

>  very SLOOOOOOWWWWW, and overall painful to use.
Open office will always be painful on with such little RAM ;)

Ralf