I like MuLinux the best.  You will need 8MB of Ram, but you can load however
much of the distro you want.  It takes four or five floppies for the whole
thing or as few as one for command line only.  They have several desktops to
choose from (FVWM95, afterstep, motif), a working browser and mail client.
Check it out here: http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/ or
http://home.snafu.de/khz/mirror/ .  You will have to download to your PC and
make the disks for him.  Read the instructions a couple of times before you
do it.  Good Luck,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: SFIKE@twa.com [mailto:SFIKE@twa.com]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:30 AM
To: kulua-l@kulua.org; kclug@kclug.org; scott@noip.net
Subject: kclug - breathing new life into an old box

To: SFIKE   --VMIDS    SCOTT A. FIKE     
    kulua-l@kulua.org
    kclug@kclug.org
    scott@noip.net

From: Scott Fike
SUBJECT: breathing new life into an old box
 I have an elderly friend who has an old 386 box and I was wanting to
install a
mini Linux distribution on it for him just so he could send and recieve
e-mail
and surf the net. I know these mini distro's were made to breathe new life
into
these obsolete boxes. Trouble is, there are so many of these mini distro's
out
there, that I can't decide on which one to go with.
The distro needs to be super easy to install (I'm still a newbie myself) and
should preferably have an easy to use point and click, drag and drop GUI. A
good, stable e-mail client and web browser are going to be the heart and
sole
of this box.
All I know about the box is that it is a 386 with a math co-processor
installed
and has a 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" floppy drives. No CD-ROM. He has an external
14.4
modem for it, but I plan on getting him a U.S. Robotics 56K external. I'm
not
for sure how much RAM is installed but I'm guessing somewhere between 4 to
8MB-
I'll find out for sure next weekend.  :)
In the mean-time, I would appreciate any suggestions for a mini distribution
from ALL on the list.

Many thanks in advance!
Scott