Which Linux (again, I suspect)

[Tim Burgess]

Hi all,

Some of you will almost certainly groan to see me back again after my
abortive attempts to get Linux going on some decrepit hardware.  The
good news is that I now have access to something a little better with a
network card that's supported.  I've got a Sony Vao laptop running at
600 MHz.  I've got Slackware 7.1 and some kind soul gave me a V8.0 CD,
which I can't lay my hands on.  I notice that 8.1 is out and I have
intermittent access to an ADSL link.  Two questions:

1 - Should I go for Slackware 8.1 or another distro?

2 - Can somebody give me a complete download URL to get what I need -
I'll be telling somebody else what to do and I don't want to mess them
around.  I noticed on the Slackware site that there were two links for
8.1, one of which was called an ISA image.  This terminology confused me
- is it an ISA image I'm looking for in order to burn it onto a CD?

All suggestions and advice gratefully accepted.

Cheers.

Tim