Lightweight Lunux suggestions

Yes, there is an hda, but it keeps wanting to do something with hdb and I have no idea what.

They're making hdc, duh.  Leave 'em alone.

So I've got an old Compaq Presario Intel Celeron 700mhz, 128mb RAM computer sitting around, and I want to get it up running with a decent linux distro for my step siblings--so it needs to be user friendly.  I've already tried a few different distros, and haven't really found one I liked yet:

• Xubuntu was slow as hell, and the wireless networking was iffy
• Gentoo was a no-go; Live CD wouldn't get past the mounting stage
• Puppy Linux worked fine, and installed OK, but the gui is kind of amateurish and I don't know if the kids would be able to use it very well
• SliTaz also wouldn't work.

Any other suggestions?  I suppose I'll try DSL next, but that's about all I know of so far.

Did you post this thread on anarchistcookbook.com also?

Uh, no?  Why?

Could have sword I saw a similar OP there. De ja vu I guess.

Turns out there is only one physical drive, but all these livecds kept interpreting the zip drive as a hard drive.  As soon as I unplugged it, everything is working fine.  What the hell.

Don't like DSL.  Going to keep looking at others!

Once you go debian you never go back.

Once you go debian you never go back.

I went Debian. I went back.

Quote from: Johannes Kepler on June 29, 2009, 02:33:20 PM

Once you go debian you never go back.

I went Debian. I went back.

I did.