JohnW wrote:

Modern distros, with funky desktop GUIs, alpha-blending, cubes that rotate, snazzy graphics of every kind... you have to admire them, but at the same time they may not fit easily (or perform quickly) on an older machine.

Suggestions please, for what distros are useful on a Pentium II with perhaps 64M or 128M of ram?

Someone wrote:

Using Squid

Squid is a web proxy -- it handles http requests for clients. It will cache recent lookups which will improve performance/reduce internet traffic, and it also gives you stronger options for restricting online activity.

Access Control

A lot of people find this fiddly. First, you create an acl (access control list), then you grant/deny access. The first match wins:

Sound cards changing order on each boot

Problem

I have two sound cards in this machine:

 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
 0000:01:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)

The first is an on-board devices and uses the snd-intel8x0 module, the second is a Sound Blaster 4.1 PCI card, which uses the snd-emu10k1 module.