The message 200504281225.03495.alug2@joebutton.co.uk from Joe Button alug2@joebutton.co.uk contains these words:
We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running Windows 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something less moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared to Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a usable office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any recommendations?
I would have thought that almost anything would run OK.
Some Linux distros take longer to load than (even) Windows, but they tend to run faster once loaded.
I sometimes run Knoppix from CD on a 233 MMX Windows box, and it's like lightning compared with Win 98SE.
And it only has 64 MB RAM.