[ILUG] Windows 98 Replacement?

[John Orford]

Hi all,

I'm off to Indonesia next week, and my girlfriend's parent's old computer 
sounds like it's in an unusable state - I've been given the task to make it 
usable again.

I'm looking for something to replace Win98 on some type of Pentium 2 (just a 
guess) with probably minimal RAM - you know the story.  I also suspect 
they'll have a winmodem too - but if the worse comes to the worst I'll buy 
them a new modem. (or maybe stick with a 2.4 kernel and download a winmodem 
driver)

Can anyone recommend any suitable software which could replace Outlook, 
Internet Explorer, Word and of course Win98?  A distro designed for such a 
purpose would be even better - as I don't want to have to download extra 
stuff over the internet there (Ireland is bad enough, can't quite imagine how 
internet would be in Indonesia...).

I'll give Damn Small Linux a test run later on - although I suspect that it'll 
be overkill.  The only other distro that comes to mind is Debian Stable with 
KDE2.

John.

P.S. I reread the lightweight wm thread - main thing here is that usability 
would also be a premium.