[ILUG] Distribution for an ageing laptop

[Peter Dempsey]

Anyone care to recommend a distribution for my laptop. It's a T1910CS
486/33 with 4Mb RAM and a 200Mb hard drive[1]. I currently have Win3.1 on a
60Mb partition, Slackware ??? an a 120Mb partition and 20Mb swap.

I don't intend to run X since it takes about half an hour to start up. I
currently log in through the serial port through a getty but I'd like to be
able to use telnet and ftp. I'd eventually like to stick a network card in
and use it for a firewall.

I want to be able to play with perl, c and sql.

I have the following distributions...
RedHat: 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0
Slackware: 3 (I think)
Debian: 1.3.1
Mandrake: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2

I'm looking for something that will install without too much trouble. My
desktop OS is Mandrake 7.2 and I'm rather fond of rpms, or should that be
rpm's. :)

I'm on the digest so please remember to cc me.

Peter

[1] If anyone had some RAM or a Hard Drive for this machine I'd rethink my
strategy.


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