[jyl]

I've decided to revive the old Libretto L100. Why? No good reason.

Anyway, this is a Pentium 166 with, IIRC, 32 MB of RAM max. It originally ran Win 98, I think. I have had Win XP running on it, but the RAM limitation makes things very hard. I had to disable every windows service I could do without and even then, it thrashed the hard drive just switching from one application to another. So I put it away, that was about 7 years ago.

Now I've figured out that with a SSD, RAM limitations are less troublesome because Windows can access the pagefile (virtual RAM) pretty quickly.

So, what O/S should I load up?

Win XP? All the Libretto L100 drivers etc for Windows are still available on the net. Or some flavour of Linux? I know nothing about Linux, so if I go that route it needs to be very simple. I've read about something called Damn Small Linux that was meant for older computers.