Re:Damn small linux (Score 1)

DSL linux boots insanely fast. On my pentium 2, 300Mhz machine it takes 28 seconds to cold boot off of a CD. And part of that is the delay at the grub prompt! Plus it fires up the applications like a mail client nearly instantly.

main difference is the graphics and dialog boxes are not as sexy as ubuntu

I note that one possible reason linux or windows boots slowly or wakes from hinernation slowly on an older machine can be it's memory starved. For example ubuntu boots on that machine in about ten minutes(!). the machine only has 396MB of memory so it's a miracle ubuntu even boots at all.

I was going to suggest this. You can boot this from flash drives or CD's and I've seen it boot in under a minute even on older boxes...