he tried a distro that was gentoo-based and had icewm as win manager. so i thought he wanted something for older pcs that is fast (xfce instead of gnome), non-bloated (400mb iso, 1 app per task) and closer to unix (slackware instead of debian). plus, zenwalk just released version 5.2 yesterday, so it might be the most up to date distro right now.