Here's the deal. I have an IBM Thinkpad 380XD, with 96mb of mem, 2gb HD, I think 2mb video card, Xircom 10/100 Nic/56k Modem and a 24x cd drive.

I currently have Win98 & Vectorlinux 2.0 installed on it. VL works great but I never did get the modem part to work and I bought a supposely hardware Zonet modem and couldn't get it to work either.

I have cable net access so I believe I can get the nic part working because I have a 3com nic, and I can network with my tower system, but I would like to get the modem part working when I"m not on the network.

Now I wanna install a newer distro and undecided which one to install, Debian 3.0 or Slack 9.0, which do you think I should install?

Any ideas/suggestions are welcome, but only one of these two choices for distro!

Thnx.

if you want a newer distro go with slackware. the packages in debians latest are the ones still in slackware 8. i get a new slackware current every once in a while and am very bias to slackware (i have used debian before, it is the only way to go with linux on non-x86). just my 2 cents, debian is easier to update...but slackware doesn't need updates as often (because it's actually current)

verigoth

Slackware is also infinitely simpler than Debian in that its package manager is simply an automated script for compiled .tgz files.
On the other hand, with its 8,000 packages, I often find myself using alien to convert .deb packages to .tgz just so I can have a good variety of stuff on my system. I wish you the best of luck in finding a distro that you like!

Yeah, I got Slack 9 on my tower system and really like it alot but I'm still leaning towards doing a base install of Debian Woody and then upgrade it to Sid. I kinda like the apt-get to do most of the work for you, since this is a laptop and I have high speed net access.