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"I tried Linux on an old 486, using Red Hat 6 (as I recall). It was slow with either graphic environment then offered, Gnome or KDE."

Well, like uhm, duh. If you had done your homework, you would have been aware that a 386 will hardly handle X with twm. A 486 will handle most of the lightweight window managers, and Gnome and KDE are quite the resource hogs reserved for at least second generation Pentiums with sufficient ram. But you didn't. And now that you had a bad experience, you're gonna make linux look bad because you couldn't run Nautilus on a 486-33 with eight megs of ram. Instead of telling us how you failed, go spend some time reading the official linux README's and FAQ's, install it correctly for the type of machine you intend to run it on, and get back to us.