Ive just got a sony vaio pcg c1xd, for free from a friend.

Its the perfect size for just quick browzing etc, but its very limited in resources.

Pentium II @ 400Mhz
64Mb built in sdram (noi expansion here )
6gb hdd

What would be a good distro to stick on this machine (i have an external cd drive). Im running xubuntu on it atm but this is veeeery slow. I tried installing puppy but it wouldnt install grub properly on the disk…

Also should i replace the noisy 6gb 4200 rpm disk with a 16gb cf card? will this be slower or faster?

Which do you personally prefer ? and why ?

Or a mandrake screams near a deaf person?

My basic operating system is windows 7 , and Recently i need linux for some applications, i want some steps to run linux with windows without using virtual machine , thanks

I can’t get my firewire drive to be detected with SuSE Linux 9.0. Is there anything I need to do to make this happen?