u can try , damnsmall linux
(dsl)

this is url to donload it

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Thanks!

Sounds great. One thing: I dont think theres support for msn messenger, which i use a lot. If I install DSL on my hdd, is it possible to install other apps to run under DSL as well, like OpenOffice?

Also, what would you recommend as a good app for using msn messenger? and possible others as well, combined into one app?

cheers!

Yep.

Check out the myDSL repository here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/

I use ayttm2 for MSN myself. Since I boot from a CD image on my almost ten year old Gateway PII's hard drive, Open Office is a bit much for me but it should work fine for you if you have enough RAM.

My li'l secret is to keep the samba.dsl file on the hard drive of the older PC and then once I've got that up and running I can get to all my other apps, which I store on a more modern machine. I access them across the LAN and recreate my OS in about five minutes.

I would suggest that you check out the apps while running off the CD or a frugal install first before you add them to your hdd install.

I actually have an old AMD K6-2 machine in the same league as yours :D ... thats y I didnt want to run, say, winXP on it lol.  Your way of running the apps sounds intresting... my old machine would prolly benefit from it too. I also have a modern machine networked to that old one. I'll have to do a lot of research to figure everything out :S ...

Does anyone have any suggestions on good Linux forums??

Thanks for the help!

Here's the dsl board:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi

LinuxLinks beginner's forum:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=2

and Just Linux:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/index.php

HTH