Lightweight Linux distro for an ancient PC?

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fishrule

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I have an old PC I built about 11 years ago as gaming system, the specs are:

PII 400
256 mb SDRAM
12 gig HDD
DVD drive
CD burner
Voodoo 2s in SLI
and a Voodoo 3 AGP (can switch to a TNT2 if needed)

So yeah, the system is ancient, but still runs and is used for day to day browsing and office work. I can remove the Voodoos since they aren't really used. Basically I have serious security concerns about running Windows 98, and just about nothing is available for it anymore. I want to put a more modern OS on it, but am completely green with Linux. Are there any relatively lightweight and straightforward Linux distros I can get for this machine?
 
Puppy and DSL I have both had good success with. They run very quick on old hardware.
 
will an XBOX360 HD-DVD add-on work with these "lite" distros? .. and how are they for wireless card support
 
I'd recc. lightweight Freebsd (dot-org), but others may consider
linux more modern than it. OTOH, you can put 2 antivirus and
two firewall (each freeware) on it (windows98) simultaneously, (after testing,)
(if they coexist well);
and be relatively secure. And unless you need more modern
drivers, using latest firefox etc, *could* be all set.
 
If you have a spare copy of XP, you could probably just use that. 256MB should be enough. (You might need to do some trimming, or if you want another option - use Windows 2000 Pro)
 
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