12 Sep 2006 01:05 UTC, King Beowulf typed:
> I recommend Slackware. I ran it on everything from a 486 with 4MB RAM
> to AMD64 with 1 GB RAM at one time or another - single and multiboot.
> It is stable and scales well for older machines. Version 10.2 and
> version 11.0 is "imminent"

Seconded.

....and I've yet to encounter a binary distro that gets you up and running
faster than Slackware.

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