Owen Synge wrote:
Many years ago Adam introduced me to Debian, but while its much easier to install these days its not really ready for my mum and other non teck savvy users, so I should recommend ubuntu, and then replacing gnome desktop with icewm to reduce the load.
Via this LUG, I picked up a reference to Zenwalk (www.zenwalk.org) the other day. I had a quick peek at the site, and downloaded the full ISO. With that, I had a fully functioning, nice and fast, XFCE desktop on an old P3 (Packard Bell Imedia, YUK!) with 128meg running in less than 15 mins. It would take a bit longer to get KDE or Gnome on it I expect, and it'd be slower, but I was EXTREMELY impressed with it. From what I can gather, it's slackware based, and does have a packaging system that works well, if the choice is still a little limited. It's definitely worth a look-see.
Cheers, Laurie.