Hi,

I haven't tried this on the equipment that you list but I successfully installed Suse on some old equipment. It appears to have a larger hardware database. For instance I have open Suse 10.1 and Ubuntu 7.10 running on my Inspiron 6400 (Aug 2006 vintage) and Suse will print to an old Epson Stylus 200 (via a USB to parallel port converter) which Ubuntu fails to detect. Also some years ago I install Suse 8 on a P2/233 PC - It worked (slowly!)
Good luck with it.

If you don't fancy downloading everything Linux Magazine (www.linux-magazine.com) sell back issues which include a DVD with various distros.

Thanks for the suggestion. I was able to get Ubuntu 7.10 installed from the alternate disk.

Hello sboisen!

Maybe SAM-Linux is an alternative for you as well (in case the heavyweight Gnome- or KDE-Desktops of *buntu are too slow). It is based on the popular PCLinuxOS and comes with the powerful yet lightweight xfce Desktop, good hardware-detection and excellent multimedia-support out-of-the-box. Have a look at "http://www.sam-linux.org/" .

floba