have you tried damnsmall?
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
claims to be happy on a 486/16
On 1/22/07, Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:
I challenge the FOSS world to get any OS and Applications package that equals win95 for raw usability on old gear. My example is a pentium 75 thru 233 laptop with under 50 mb ram and under 1gig hd. The concept of a GUI distro that will have an acceptable user response time and run on laptops such as described has not yet been demonstrated to me.