Hi
I'm currently willing to try antiX for my old laptop.
It's a P166/64MB RAM (not expandable)and a 8GB SSD, Xircom Realport2 and 3COM 3C575 and a DLink USB DE100 as Network cards. My VGA is a Neomagic 128ZX in combination with a Yamaha OPL3SAx.
I've had FreeBSD 3.0 for 8 years running on it as squid proxy, ssh and mpg123 streamer in action. After working now 11 years with RHEL I'm willig to try Linux on it.

My Question: V12 claims 128MB RAM min; is there a way around or which version was satisfied with 64MB?
Cheers
Sam

To be honest, running a modern linux on such old hardware will be painful, unless you keep to cli apps or very few gui. drg (resident old box tester for antiX) has several posts about his attempts at running antiX on old hardware.
For example:
post25466.html#p25466

Thanks
that's the info I need. I need X mainly to start bash's. Apps like mplayer, ddrescue or mpg123 are best for my case.
Cheers
Sam