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    Old laptop

    I have an old Dell laptop that I use just for traveling with. It has win98se installed (which I hate) and I was looking at installing a new OS. I realy don't want to pay for the winxp license so I was looking into some of the free OS's out there such as Ubuntu. Only problem is that this laptop is running a PII 233, 80m memory (upgradable to 144 if I can find it) and a 4 gig hdd. Ubuntu states that it needs at least 256m ram and 4 gig hdd space, so this is out.
    I was also looking into Debian / Linux but I just don't know much about any of these.
    Are there any other OS's out there that this machine will run? All I am interested in is web browsing and some light word processing and file storage.
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