Linux that runs well on a p600 with 256mb of ram!!

All I need is a OS that has open office (with open base on it)

I have tried Ubuntu, but it is very slow, and locked up whenever I tried to do anything on open base!! and it keeps on complaing it has no internet connection (thats becuse I dont want ti to have an internet connection)

all I want the computer for is to run a database - is that to much to ask!!

is DSL an option?

very tempted to put windows 98 back on - please dont let me!!

try slackware with a light window manager like blackbox/fluxbox, or windowmaker, or xfce...

And better thread titles. Your title tells us nothing at all about your problem.

Yeah Man I agree with Okie on this one Slackware would be the way to go, Although I've read that a distrobution called yoper is exelent for old Hardware although I can't comment on Yoper Haven't tried it but it wouldn't hurt having A look

Jake

Yea slackware is nice. Also look into arch linux and debian. Or, you could also remove gnome in ubuntu and install something like icewm or xfce instead. If you would install gnome on slack it would probably be just as slow as ubuntu with gnome. Although slack is a bit faster I think the most important choice lies with which window manager and other applications you pick.

It could be though that the problem lies with ubuntu, I just ran it once and found it too slow (just coz I find gnome and the included apps to slow)

I know it's pretty difficult to pick anything good at start when you don't know any of the linux applications yet. But if you look at my webpage for example you can find some light good ones: http://users.skynet.be/six/gpure/tech/linux/apps.html

Be careful though, I'm a bit of a textapp freek

Yet if you would chose Icewm (with silverxp theme), firefox (or opera), openoffice (abiword+gnumeric is a faster alternative), mplayer, xmms, ... It should run fast on your computer and have a quite nice gui.

Also Vector Standard or Puppy Linux; maybe Damn Small.

Gunnix is right, though. What will really slow you down is the X-server and your apps, not your distro.

and your reply tells me nothing at all about how to solve my problem

Thanks for the help everyone

I am a and installing other stuff pretty much scares me, I never got to grips with installing stuff on mandrake 9.1 when I was last using linux.

I might give slackwhere a go, does open office come pre-installed?

What makes you think it was meant to? When you clicked "New Thread" did you bother reading the bit to the left of where you typed in the title? The bit that says:

calm down, I know my title was dum, I only was trying to humour you a bit

as a moderartor, I always thought you are meant to keep the peace, not be short and snappy - it can really rub peeps up the wrong way!

Not short and snappy, merely informative and moderative

A 600 MHz Pentium, especially with 256 MB of RAM should be able to run most things.. even gnome and KDE without TOOO much trouble... sure it'll be a little slow.. which is why you should be using fluxbox or XFCE... Openoffice is HUUUUGE resource hog though.. which i'll bet is where a lot of your problem stems from..