If anyone is interested, heres a new distro to play with:
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mepiscommunity.org/mxIt's put together by a team pulled from the MEPIS and antiX communities.
Amazingly quick on old hardware (posting from a PIII-750MHz/512MB
laptop). Fits on a CD. Forum is very active and responsive -- the
developers themselves will respond to most queries.
Originally aimed at low resource netbook type hardware, it's deemed a
"middleweight" distro but with all the necessities. There is a
metapackage-installer included to easily enable you to load it up as
heavy as you like.