Yea I am using Mandrake 10 just for ease of install and extra packages.
Had Fedora Core 1 I don't like the package management (little ot no way to install/uninstall individual packages)
as for hardware... please don't laugh
An eMachines W2646
2.66GHz Celeron
256 MB RAM
Intel i845g GPU (sucking-up a max of 64 MB of sys RAM) ewww blah!
Conaxent 56k soft modem (that doesn't support Linux with out a $14.00 (US) kernel module from Linuxant) that I am too poor to pay for so I can only connect at 14.4 with Linux) more blah eww ick gag....
AC97 sound (2 channel only) (Hey! it could have only had the PC speaker!

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10/100 LAN (with nothing to connect it to

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17in CRT
40 GB IDE Hard disk

(dual booting Mandrake10.0 and Win XP home sp2)
Any one who has pitty can send me their old hardware

Um, uh, yea... sure!