I think that Wary Puppy would be your best bet of the litter. Possibly roll back to an earlier version. But if you can't get Puppy to work you could try Damn Small Linux. (Dog, forgive me). DSL is not an active project and it is frozen in time at about 2008. I have heard that you can get a 486 up an...

I love this little Linux! A bit over a year ago my kids managed to roach the install of WinXP on their computer. To make matters worst, I couldn't find (and still can't find) my Windows install disk. In an effort to get the machine running, I tried several small footprint Linux distro's. I even inst...