Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.setup Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>:
>> Pneuma Cheney <frank@frank.spama> wrote:
>
>>> You should look at Redhat 8.0 or 9.0.
>
>> Please don't recommend unmaintained, unsafe Linux distributions to
>> people. Thank you.
>
> Indeed!
>
> I'd strongly recommend Debian on the OP's aged system, it should
> fly even with KDE on it.
>
> Presuming a working Internet connection, Debian GNU/Linux can be
> installed through the Internet with just 1-3 floppy images:
>
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
>

Redhat 9 doesn't look *that* unmaintained, look at the
time stamps:

http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/

Sure the kernels use the 2.4.20-X version numbers but
it's feature patched forward by RH to have much of the stuff
in even the 2.6 kernels.