i recommend debian or some os based on debian..

debian is very easy and have a lot of debians translated for you language..
here in brazil, there is.

i learned a lot of things about linux using debian..
and apt-get is like a gift hehehe

For your 64 MB system, I suggest you consider buying some more RAM, specifically, 128 MB that is compatible with what you already have. I have upgraded several computers using "old" RAM from others, and I can tell you this much from direct experience.

1. Windows 95, 98 and ME can use a maximum of 192 MB of RAM.
2. Any version of Windows will run faster with more RAM, up to the maximum it can use.
3. You can put in up to 768 MB. If you go to 1 GB, they will think there is 0 MB present, and refuse to boot.
4. Even if Linux will run in 64 MB, it will run much faster in 192 MB, by reducing the use of a swap file.

I am running 768 MB in a multi-boot machine which has Win 98, Win 2K Pro and SuSE Linux. The latter two really benefit from the extra RAM, and Win 98 uses what it is able to.

I agree with the recommendation of DSL if you want to stay with 64 MB, and even if you upgrade the memory, if the CPU is slow. DSL is Damn Small Linux, for those of you in Rio Linda. For you lurkers, note that DSL does not support some recent hardware. It uses the 2.4 kernel, so many of the latest additions are not in it. This is how it manages to run in limited memory, but it may be the best choice on older systems. To highlight a few things from the DSL Information Page --
Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

• Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
• Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
• Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
• Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)

These options make it very easy to try out, if you're not sure whether you want to get further into it. However, expect that you will need to do some things in a shell (the command-line interface).

If you run Linux with less than 128MB RAM, the X server that renders graphics on your system will have trouble running since that's the bare minimum to run X Server.

xboxrulz

Thanks for that information but I threw out the old computer and just kept the hard drive.

Fedora----fedora---Fedora