Suggestion for best Distro to put onto an old laptop

[faintdreams]

I have an ancient (but otherwise fully functional) Toshiba laptop. It is a Satillite 220CDS.

I want to use it as a stand alone writing machine, (with ability ti save to a usb stick), and I think that Linux is probably the best way to go, but I am unsure which linux distro would be the least amount of hassle to install.

The gui doesn't have to be too snazzy (I've used fluxbox before so I'm not afraid of minimalism), but whatever I use it has to support a competent word processing package

My google fu is failing me so I welcome any suggestions.

Thanks (in advance)

Faintdreams

Duh posted to personal journal and no community one  !

Comments

[asenathwaite]

Have you checked out Puppy, Tiny Core, or antiX? They're all designed for low-powered machines. I haven't tried Tiny Core yet, but Puppy and antiX are very usable and have active communities around them. If what you want to do is write, you don't really need a word processor. A basic text editor like Leafpad should be fine, or if you want something with a little more functionality, try FocusWriter.

[swisscelt]

Ditto the recommendation of Puppy.