Puppy Linux - found it - at least
...........and I'm the most happy Linux newbie around 10,000 miles.
Having had unsuccessful attempts with SuSe and ReadHat back in 2005. I finally came across that lovely name.
Installed Puppy it in 15 minutes yesterday and on the spot got connected to the internet with a few clicks to configure.
Today I dumped my old error prone W98SE. Have an old laptop (Gateway Solo 2150 , 160 Mbytes main and a 40 GB disk).