Hi Gents.
I have an old laptop from back when I was doing my undergrad - it's an IBM thinkpad with and Intel Celeron 500 Mhz with 160 megs of ram and a 6G hard drive

Now that I have my workshop almost up and running, I'd like to surf the web (nothing more) and check out SRP from my Restoration Den. I've currently got Win XP SP2 on there, but it's such a slog that it's not worthwhile (and unstable to boot).

Can you guys recommend a free OS that won't blow my system specs to bits? Nothing fnacy,and preferably something fairly easy to use (since I'm relatively tech savy [I think], but can't get into any of the complex stuff).

I'm assuming Linux has something along the lines of what I'm looking for, but know nothing of Linux...though I'm willing to learn (mostly because Firefox can run Linux)!

Please help!

Mark