The daughter bought a cheap laptop off the street and wanted me to "upgrade" it to make it faster

Its a gateway solo 2500 Se: Pentium@200mhz 96mb ram (128 max) with a very slow Win2k install on it'* 2Gb Hd.

I'm looking for a stripped down version of Linux that will work with wireles internet, email, and a modern browser (flash, pdf..anything else?)

Recommendations?

(No, there'* no way to get her money back, don't bother recommending that)

i have Damn Small Linux on my flash drive... its bare-bones, but it works. i cant recall if it has wifi though.

How cheap is cheap? Or don't I want to know?

Hmm, just try loading Ubuntu, that'* what I always use... I have a P2 machine that I got for free that ran Ubuntu and Gentoo just fine...

IIRC, Gentoo is VERY stripped down, and might be the best choice for you...

ubuntu would take up half the HDD

OH GEEZ! I thought I saw 20gb hard drive! Well that changes things...


Just remembered hearing about this a while ago...
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

yup. that'* the one i mentioned. it'* not real pretty, but it works.

Oh, sorry, I didn't see you post that! I must be going crazy... That'* what happens when you take a whole day to cram for a chem test....

lol its all good. i hear ya there.

Thanks! I'll check that out.

btw - she paid $90 for it but at least it has a working wireless card in it.