Linux distro suggestion needed!

[Bluedot]

My bro has a crappy system of 256 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD and 2.95 GHZ CPU. Yesterday he asked me for a good Linux distro for his system since he was having performance issues with XP SP3. What do you guys recommend?

I personally am fond of Slax but can't get it to install and boot from his hard drive.

[hellnoire]

Puppy Linux or Arch with something lightweight.

[luffy]

2.95 GHZ CPU with 256 MB RAM is very strange.

[Bluedot]

2.95 GHZ CPU with 256 MB RAM is very strange.

Toldya. Crappy system. Now my bro isn't much into computers, so I reckon he'll have trouble with both Puppy and Arch.

[hellnoire]

Puppy is based of Ubuntu now, I doubt he'll mess it up. Especially when it has 99.9% of all you need right there by default.

Arch, I could understand him messing up though.

[Raymond]

2.95GHz CPU looks fine but the RAM is very low. Consider upgrading it since RAM are pretty cheap nowadays.

[Alboguy]

Puppy Linux or Arch with something lightweight.

Indeed. If you don't consider upgrading your RAM only puppy would work with your current specs.