[NTLUG:Discuss] Looking for Distro recomendations

[Thomas Cameron]

> 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?

Any modern distro (i.e. 2/6 kernel) is probably going to be pretty painful
on those machines.

You might want to look at SLINKY and the RULE project: 
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/

Thomas