More Options for the Old Machine

This is a follow-up to a year old post titled Another Option for the Old Machine . A year ago I determined that Windows 2000 standard was the most reasonable OS for my old Thinkpad 600e laptop. It is just the most “usable� as far as performance goes. However, during the past year I’ve installed and removed enough stuff on this thing that has started to get annoyingly sluggish. Reload time! I decided that before I reloaded Win2K I’d try out some more Linux options first to see if anything new has popped up. Fluxbuntu is the first one I tried. It is an Ubuntu (7.10?) derivative running the Fluxbox window manager. It runs tolerably well, but would probably be better suited to a Pentium III based machine. I liked it, but ultimately decided to look at other options to see if I could find something that liked a P II based machine a bit more. The bundled Kazehakase web browser works quite well (in spite of the fact that I’d never heard of it)....