Might also check out Morphix LightGUI.  0.4 just released.
A Live CD like Knoppix, but can be installed.
8 MB may be a little light tho.

Bob

Andy Moore wrote:

>Something that inevitably comes in at installfests is an old machine
>barely worthy of the title "Doorstop".  We had 3 P166 Laptops with 8MB
>RAM show up at the last one. There is always discussion about the best
>distro to put on these babies so I've been doing some research in that
>area.
>
>A few I've come up with are
>DamnSmallLinux(http://www.damnsmalllinux.org), Tiny
>Linux(http://tiny.seul.org/) and Vector Linux(www.vectorlinux.com). 
>Peanut Linux has also been mentioned but I pretty well disregard that
>one as it uses KDE3 for the desktop.  It's small enough to download over
>a dial-up but still built for a little more beef than what 10 year old
>machines have.  Over the next couple weeks I'll try these babies out and
>report back here with my findings.
>  
>
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