[NTLUG:Discuss] Looking for Distro recomendations

[Chris Cox]

Jeff Miller wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm looking for distro recomendations for an older laptop.  I've got 2
> old Toughbook cf-25's at home, one a 133 MHz and one a 166 MHz system. 
> I'm wanting to make at least one of them into a GPS system for my truck,
> something with more than the standard 2" display on the small GPS
> systems.  I've already got a serial GSP antenna that seems to work fine,
> will have to wait and see though.  So, what I'm looking for is a
> distribution that will run well on that speed of system.  I tried
> Mandrake on them a while back and it just seemed a bit slow on them. 
> Also, does anyone know of a mapping program out there that would run
> well on this speed of system?

My guess is that you won't find Mandrake/Fedora/SUSE to be very
pleasant... at least not the latest and greatest of those.
I've run SUSE 8.0 and even SUSE 9.0 on a P166 with 256M.  Memory
is more important nowadays.  The big boyz just don't work
well at all with less than 128M.. and usually don't work well
until you get to 256M.

I'd look at some of the smaller lighter weight distributions.

I know that's not very specific.