I found this site yesterday and have decided to give wattOS a try on an old Windows 2000 PC I have that was about to take a one-way trip to the recycling centre.  As it is pretty low-spec -- 256Mb RAM, 800Mhz PIII, 20Gb disk -- I decided to install the 32bit Microwatt distro. 

First time round I ticked the 'download upgrades' and 'Use VLM' boxes.  After 4 hours the installation crashed. So, I tried again, but this time left the boxes un-ticked. The next installation took an hour and has just finished.  At first sight everything is now OK, so maybe there is a compatibility issue with the updates or a VLM issue.

I am off to have a play now.  I am new to Linux so I have got some learning to do.  First off I plan to install Python and Geany.  Is this OK to do under this distro, or should I have gone for the LXDE version?