Linuxers,
Although I know it is an overreach, I want to find out a distribution, if any, for my oldest PC having the following configuration.
Pentium II CPU
128 MB memory
6.4 GB Hard Disk
CD Writer
My requirement is that I'll give it to my office staff for typing, printing and scanning job works. Hence I ought to have the following.
KDE for her to easily adapt to Linux (from Windows)
K3b for CD burning
OpenOffice for productivity job work ( as customers, especially students typing and printing project reports, research papers, etc will only have MS Office)
Drivers for restricted formats to open avi, mpeg, etc files
Now, I hope you understood my point. Your help is thanked in advance.
Allwyn.

If you could upgrade your memory to at least 256 meg it would help a bunch.

You could try AntiX and install KDE. You could also try an older version of Slackware - there are still security updates even for very old versions. You probably want KDE because it looks better, but AntiX looks really nice. You could look at TinyME and install KDE there as well, but I'm skeptical.

Everything you list in your post can be done with AntiX or TinyME and the default look of those distros is great.

Puppy is not bad looking, but not as nice as those two, but it will be very fast on that machine.

Try Slackware 10.2 if you can't get more RAM and 12.1 if you can get, say, 512 MB. Either way, they're not gonna be fun, but work. So the best choice would be to get more RAM and install Slackware 10.2.

KDE and openoffice will run like crap with 128Mb of ram. all you are going to do is frustrate your office staff who will just assume it sucks because it runs linux. go get more ram it will only cost a few bucks. you shouldn't have to run an old version of a distro just because you have an old computer.

Definitely get more Ram, or just ditch the idea, because it will just irritate your staff, and like Windows users often use crappy computers, they'll blame Linux as opposed to the junk their running it on.

Find out what type of Ram it has, it'll probably be pretty cheap on Ebay, and max it out.

IGF

Hmm, both KDE and Openoffice on something like that.
You might have to reconsider that. You might want to try a smaller Desktop Environment, like e.g XFCE. Its considerably lighter and still user friendly enough. There are also some smaller office applications available.

If you are familiar with the Linux command line tools, you could try Gentoo. Although its fast, it can be difficult to install and since it compiles everything it can take a very long time to install something like openoffice (specially on a PII).
Another light distribution that should be easier to install and avoid some of those compilations is Arch Linux: http://www.archlinux.org/

There are also others like Puppy Linux and DSL (Damn small Linux). I would burn some Live CDs from a few of these and try them out first.

Xfce is a reasonable suggestion, but Xfce supposedly will run w/ 64mb of Ram once installed. It will run, but it will be slow. Xfce has been getting more and more bloated the last few releases to where its really not much different from Gnome/KDE.

I'm not really sure why the OP thinks KDE would automatically make it easy for a Windows user to adapt. Yeah, the K menu may look like the Start menu, but thats the only similarity. I cleared the last virus off of my youngest sister's PC the other day, and she's now using Ubuntu 8.04 w/ no problems. Actually, she was telling me the other day how much faster it is. It took her about 20-30min to get a feel for it, and she had some questions of course, but she's happy with it.

IGF

You will be frustrated running both of those on that setup.

I have a 233mhz IBM Thinkpad with a Debian Netinst and Fluxbox and it runs fairly well. It only has 96mb of memory and a 10gb HD which it share with Win2000.

You may want a lighter window environment than KDE.

Yes, thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions. I am trying AntiX and Slackware to convince myself before doing a memory upgrade. I prefer KDE because of three (may be silly) reasons. First, when attempting to overwrite a file in Gnome, it just asks whether to overwrite. It doesn't show the properties of original and source files. Secondly, I feel, the search engine in Gnome (or anything else) is not as comprehensive as in KDE. Third, K3b is one of the greatest assets in KDE. In Gnome one cannot verify if the burning is correct. I use Debian with KDE desktop. For me, the only disappointment is the lack of Firefox. Its alternative Iceweasel is not good enough for me. Although I changed its default fonts to Arial, it keeps on showing everything in Sans. For me, only Debian made me both overcome and completely forget Windows.
Allwyn.

I always use k3b for burning anything regaurdless of what desktop environment I'm using. In my opinion it is the best burning program. you can use firefox, k3b or any other program you like with any DE you want to use.

Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux should work fine.

Good luck, Michael

Iceweasel is Firefox...Debian just renamed it with a few modifications because of trademark issues.