I've explored 7 distros thoroughly (DSL, puppy, feather, kubuntu, Movix, LiMP, Geexbox) and none of them has what I need:

I have some very peculiar hardware:
Pentium III 800MHz
64MB of RAM (hence peculiar)
rage 128 pro gl
soundblaster 16
Belkin 802.11G (F5D7000)
So... I need one with good sound card support, minimal RAM requirements, and good NDISwrapper support, and if possible, something with 1) a good office suite (Ted and Ciag), 2) MPlayer and XMMS, 3) something better than dillo but smaller than firefox, and 4) XPaint or GIMP.

any help is appreciated
thanx www.vectorlinux.com

The wireless NIC will be the biggest hurdle with any distro.Puppy Linux worked fine with the ndiswrapper. Something with the same ndiswrapper as puppy. DSL and Feather do NOT support my card very well at all. Kubuntu is too new, Ubuntu, is just as bad and Xubuntu is still too new. Ubuntu-lite I think MAY be ok but will be slow. Are you SURE that VECTOR Linux will work? After it's a 400MB ISO i'm downloading; takes a while. Anyways thanx:)There's very little sure in this world other than Microsoft will screw you over.

Give it a try. I think you will be pleased. If not you may want to look at Slackware on which Vector is based. It's a distro that has more of a learning curve, but it will run on your equipment.

The problem with limited RAM machines is the window managers - KDE and Gnome.So Vector and Slackware use the X11 GUI?

Before I download Vector, can I install it to my secondary Hard Drive? So for some wacky reason if I ever had to use windows again... Does it ask for a path like Windows?Yes, it can go anywhere. Check the FAQ on the Vector site for any problems with this.Vector Linux will work with 64MB, but only in text-mode. Trying to load XFCE4 takes a long time and then it take 10 to 30minutes to load mousepad. The only viable way to use it is to boot in TUI and type in "startx mousepad". Anything that uses Xvesa or X.org?I think I'd spring for some cheap used RAM on eBay so you can be functional. I think i'm OK now. I'm using Puppy Linux for Web Surfing and Word Processing and i'm using GeeXboX for MULTIMEDIA. It runs OK with SPECIALIZED software. I haven't been on because of Internet problems. Here's a tip: never buy a Belkin product because of warranty; Their Tech Support suck.ironically, the system he is on uses SDRAM, which, i have a ton of... if i where you, i would get it up to atleast 192mbs of ram (a 128 stick addition), or, get it to 256mbs. will run quite smooth on 256mbs of ram.It's an old PC and will fail sooner or later. Better to invest in a new one.