There are some superb desktop Linux distributions that are designed to work with very old hardware. For example, Puppy Linux is a great choice to quickly turn an old PC into a secure, easy to use word ...
Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else The Desktop Classic System is a rather unusual ...
I've been using Slackware for about a year and wanted to give Debian a shot. I downloaded the first 3 iso's (at 300kb/sec thanks to BitTorrent), only to learn that my rarely used cd burner was broken ...