[ale] low-memory distros?

[Geoffrey]

Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> Afternoon,
> 
> On to a new subject... I may inherit my wife's laptop and I'm thinking
> of installing a distro on it to take with me when I travel. The laptop
> is a bit old - 6 years (Sotec 3120X) but it's the perfect size (12" screen
> and 4.4 lbs.). The specs on it look pretty good but It's only got 384 MB
> of memory and some it is used for the GPU (nominally 32MB but
> could be 64MB).  So I've got a couple of questions:
> 
> (1) What distro would you recommend that has a window manager
> and OpenOffice? (I can always install Openoffice later).

Personally, I love Slack for low end boxes.

> (2) What wireless PC Card do people recommend that works with
> Linux but doesn't require ndiswrapper?

atheros cards based cards.  I've got two of them:

Airlink 101, model AWLC4030  - picked it up at frys
blitzz bwp 712 - the company has gone out of business.

I actually have swapped these cards in the same laptop and they worked 
without reconfiguration.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin