What OS to choose for this laptop?

Question

Operating Systems

There is an ancient laptop, I would like to revive it by installing some Linux. What do you advise?

Characteristics:
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite L10-119-RU
Processor: Intel Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz
RAM: 512 GB DDR2
HDD: 40 GB

Answer 1

The main question is what is expected from the "revival".
This will not work on today's internet. There are simply no modern browsers that work adequately on such resources that the system (whatever) will leave from this iron.
For standalone work (like a typewriter, development in some ancient IDE or gaman in modern toys for this laptop), it is logical to put what it was actually made for - XP, Win2k or even Chicago.
And pulling Linux on it is digging out a flight attendant with a thimble.
Except, perhaps, the option of installing a Linux server without a GUI and working with it in the console.

Answer 2

Void Linux or Alpine Linux .

Answer 3

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntiX

Answer 4

Highly recommend ubuntu, but install manually via debootstrap or get xubuntu
The latest lts version supporting 32bit seems to be version 12
Why ubuntu and not something exotic? Because you can find mirror repositories for any version on it

Answer 5

He will not even pull the browser. Don't torture the patient. From any OS.

Answer 6

Puppy Linux

Answer 7

I agree with Adamos - why? He's probably twenty years old. It is possible, probably, to put a Linux distribution twenty years ago. Or Windows 2000, if firewood is found. But for anything more serious than a simple text editor, it will be unsuitable.

Answer 8

Install DOS.
Joking aside, Bodhi Linux and antiX.

Answer 9

You can also try quite modern distributions under a non-guided server. Same Ubuntu Server.
But I'm not sure about the disc. Has he been tested, is he still alive? And then after all, he is there PATA, there is nothing to change for.

Answer 10

Slax Linux.