Just thought I'd mention my latest escapades. There's been a unused machine lying around here for ages, it was free. PIII something, 128mb RAM. It was an ex corporate PC and they had put Ubuntu on it before they gave it away, tad marginal on the specs though. They also gave it away without giving the user name or the password, tried everything obvious, no go.
So I put Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE) on it yesterday. Install took an absolute age, but it worked perfectly right away. I quite like the feel of XFCE, I might put it on the main machine. I'm tempted to try Fluxbuntu on it (Fluxbox), downloaded it and tried it on the ancient laptop, but I figured it wouldn't work and it didn't. It's a livecd that you can install, and that laptop seems to have a specific conflict issue with power management stuff in Ubuntu.
Anyway, I figured one or two people here might be interested, esp in Fluxbuntu. It's still a developmental release, but the livecd seemed to work fine on machines other than the laptop.