What linux to use

[Blowmoulder1]

I've got an old PC that a friend wants to buy from me so he can use it to "surf the web" AKA - Porn. The theory being that he then doesn't have to worry about contaminating his good computers

I'm just happy to get some cash for this old thing - Its an e machine T3256 with an AMD 3200+, 512 ram and an invidia 5700

I've had umbuntu and ark linux on it in the past but I wanted something cooler this time. Sabayon looks really cool but I don't think it was meant to run on a dinosaur

What is a good user friendly and fun version of linux I can put on this thing that he will like and I will have fun playing with before I sell it to him?

Thanks

[jayd512]

Linux Mint would probably serve well for that computer.
With 512 RAM, it might not be the fastest monster on the block, but you shouldn't run into any real issues.

[tahl]

I'm a fan of Linux Mint 11 personally. I never tried the ones before it, but it's very simple to use. It does have some problems with menu if he plans to use Wine (he'll have to use Gnome's Main Menu). Other than that, I've had very few complaints with Mint compared to other distros that I've tried in the past.

[rokytnji]

Macpup

Macpup: A beautiful derivative of Puppy Linux

my video for Antix which flys on my

$ inxi -F
System:    Host Biker Kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop IceWM 1.3.7 Distro antiX-M11-686 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
Machine:   Mobo IBM model 2628TWU Bios IBM version KXET33WW (1.06 ) date 09/05/2001
CPU:       Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (-UP-) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 1992.6 clocked at 1000.00 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org 1.10.2 drivers loaded: ati,mach64 unloaded: fbdev,vesa Resolution 1024x768@87.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] driver Sound Fusion CS46xx bus-ID: 00:05.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1 3Com 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] driver 3c59x port 2c00 bus-ID: 00:03.0
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: 00:01:03:86:7f:e9
           Card-2 Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 06:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:11:50:dc:7a:60
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 20.0GB (33.5% used) 1: /dev/sda IC25N020ATCS04 20.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 5.0G used: 2.4G (51%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 7.7G used: 893M (13%) fs: ext4 
           ID:swap-1 size: 0.76GB used: 0.01GB (1%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0C mobo: 44.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0 
Info:      Processes 106 Uptime 4:24 Memory 260.9/501.2MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.6.7

Screenr - roktnji: AntiX redux

Screenr - roktnji: AntiX 11 i686 base iso persistent pendrive

[jayd512]

Damn, Rok!
Those are slick!

[zenwalker]

Try
ULTILEX as one suggestion
In addition to antiX (see @rokytnji), CrunchBang-10-i486 works well