To keep or sell away?

[computerophil]

I dont think anyone wold be as poor to buy this PC . But I have planned to use it as long as it serves me. I am going to install openSUSE on it. I like famous distros. Others seem pimitive and it is often difficult to get help on them (specially while installing hardware). Moreover, these "unofficial" ones don't tend to give much a pretty interface. I would like a KDE 4 desktop on my PC (planned to keep it). Who knows when these will be discontinued? But indeed, the famous ones owe a large investment on part of the company and they are hard to discontinue. Even further, the famous ones have been surviving since long and are done by more experienced companies.

I think you give to much an the fame. Linux in most cases doesn't have to do with companies at all. Often distros are made by genius individuals, students, universities and that is also one of the reasons why they can be offered free. Those distros with company background are mostly enterprise editions which are to buy but this are also very serious distributions which give more on stability than on the newest trends.
If you want to have an old computer with the wow-effect you should give more on what will do things fast than on just optical effects.
Those smaller distros are everything else than primitive. I think often it is even more difficult to keep a distro small and quickly running than just to include everything.

[D-cat]

SuSE 11 will be slow on anything less than 512 MB, you're better off running SLED10 (if you can find it) or OpenSuSE 10.3 on a PIII/256MB RAM. It's a better fit for OS to Technology timeline, should run mostly smooth, and still has some support left.

If you want to be able to run the latest app versions with it, then I's have to agree with a poster above and suggest going with Puppy. Zenwalk is also supposed to be okay, but I haven't played with it so I can't really say one way or another.