A friend of mine has got an old pc in her house - a pentium 1 with only 4 GB of hard drive and probably 64 MB of ram (could be 128, not sure).
I want to turn that old pc into a multimedia machine (for playing music and video files only) and it doesn't even need to be connected to the internet.

I've browsed this site - and came across these Distros as suitable for such a purpose:

• MoviX2
• Mulimidix
• freepia

I've never heard of any these distros, so I'm hoping to hear your feedback on the subject, and also suggestions of other distros you think are better.
I might add that the main user will be my friend's 14 years old daughter, who's never used Linux before - so the distro in question can't be text based only.

the pc is too slow. fine it can play mp3 and maybe vcd files but it will not play divx movies.

Ok, you might be right (again, i'm not too sure about the exact specifics - since that pc was able to run games like FIFA 2001 on win 98 at the time).

However, my question was about what distro i should be looking for, that could pull the job nicely - any suggestions?

damn small should work just fine,its nice n small.

If the pc runs Fifa01, it will probably have 128mb ram or more..

Try Zenwalk!

www.zenwalk.org

You can also try Puppy Linux (If you don't have that much ram, try the Lite version). Also Damn Small Linux is a very good choice also.


Mike