Did you even look at Feather ???? As i said, my P1 233 mobile is running firefox, that is mozilla. and yes thunderbird will work too. (ok not evolution) but I don't use thunderbird, as the compiled versions are 686 optimised, and I cant be bothered with recompiling it for i586. so thats my problem.... and I like syphleed anyway. Open Office runs fine, click one link and it installs to your hard drive over the internett... ( the cd is 64 meg so OO isn't on the cd) firefox is the same, VNC, Linneighborhood, xmms .... in short theres a lot there, and its easy to get a lot more. if you want speed it well worth looking at and fluxbox is faster than kde. you can make a bloated release, or you can make a speedy release. I run collegelinux (based on slackware 9.1 with kde3 ... etc.. fairy modern, albeit 2.6 is well in the works as its starting to date) on an amd K2 500 and its acceptable, on my DSE terminator its as responsive as windows ME on the same box. but I let KDE go, its too slow for my taste. So instead I use Fluxbox for me, and icewm for the windows users ( but even they prefer fluxbox now) so that it seems more like windows. both are fast and easy to use. On my Athlon 2600, I can tolerate KDE, but rarely use it as I have developed a liking of fluxbox. BTW - I am on the Colegelinux team, but the views are my own. Disclaimer ends. In short you need to look around and find the distro that suits you. If you have to download 3-6 CD's maybe its the wrong release. Craig Box wrote:
Wow, took at least four replies to get Damn Small Linux mentioned! :)
Short and sweet. Look up featherlinux. http://featherlinux.berlios.de or DSL - Damn Small Linux.
its a knoppix remaster of 64 megs, has wireless, fluxbox as the desktop, and no accelerated X but for wordprocessing , e-mail (sypleed) and browsing (dillo and I have installed firefox too) its more than fast enough. Vncviwer and lots of apps are standard, and you can live cd with save your personal stuff on pedrive, hard drive (fat32) or floppy, or install to hard drive and use it as your distro.
Thanks Gavin, but I don't want Sylpheed, I want Evolution or possibly Thunderbird. I don't want dillo, I want a Mozilla. And I want OpenOffice.org. I want equivalent functionality to what I would expect on a common Windows machine.
I know if you want to run tiny distributions on tiny hardware you can. What I want is to run modern applications on older hardware. If modern applications aren't architected to support this, then that is the problem.
Craig
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