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I've ran Slack many times and think it will run on the requirements mentioned but also think it would be terribly slow on a 486 with 64 megs of RAM, should you want to run a GUI.
1.5 Ghz is still a perfectly good machine. You may want to consider adding some RAM, as that is rather cheap these days and will improve the performance a lot.
If you like Slackware, you may also want to look into VectorLinux. It's basically Slackware, but optimized for home usage. So it has all the codexes and media players and all. And it's very fast. I've had no trouble running that on a 800Mhz 256MB RAM.
I would agree vector linux would be good or for a debian based distro, Antix.
Slackware is what you make of it, in large part, but it can be a challenge to set up. You wouldn't want to run KDE in Slackware or any other distro on that machine.
You wouldn't want to run KDE in Slackware or any other distro on that machine.
No kidding! But a lightweight WM like XFCE, or better yet IceWM, would have no trouble at all on that box.
My first Linux install was on a 1 gig processor with 512 RAM. Fedora + IceWM ran really smooth, so I can only assume that something like Vector or Antix would be lightning fast!
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If you do go for Slackware, have a look at slackbuilds for software installation
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Xfce comes in the default install of Slackware. To be more precise, it's in the xap/ package collection. KDE is in it's own kde/ package collection, so it's easy to exclude that from the install.
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But a lightweight WM like XFCE, or better yet IceWM, would have no trouble at all on that box.
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