Best OS for old laptop?

[jonapap]

What would be the best OS for a pc with those specification? I would maybe like if it is Linux based but that really doesn't matter too much.
Celeron CPU 1.60GHz
192 MB of Ram
I don't remember the size of the hard drive but I think it is about 50 GB so it should be ok for most OS. I want to change to an OS to have it run a little bit faster. My goal would be to run the Arduino IDE from it and upload to my arduino, if it is possible.

 

[USAFRet]

A small Linux distro. PuppyLinux, maybe. Or DamnSmallLinux.

 

[thx1138v2]

Another option: Have an older PC? Try the new Ubuntu Linux-based LXLE

I was going to try it on an old Windows 2000 machine but never did so you might need to do some research on it.

 

[Alabalcho]

Arduino IDEs are JAVA based, and I doubt you can run it on 192MB of RAM. And will take ages to load, then compille, and run.

 

[jonapap]

Arduino IDEs are JAVA based, and I doubt you can run it on 192MB of RAM. And will take ages to load, then compille, and run.

Ok maybe not Arduino but an OS where I can at least do something with this laptop.

 

[jonapap]

Tried DamnSmallLinux, I liked it(need to get used to linux!) I am currently running it from my usb I need this usb. I looked how to install it on the hard drive, look easy, create a partition, run program, wait, installed! The problem is, I want to keep my windows partition for maybe future uses but I don't find a way to resize it. So, should I make a live CD or try to find a way to resize the partition and install it on the drive? Any help?

 

[USAFRet]

Tried DamnSmallLinux, I liked it(need to get used to linux!) I am currently running it from my usb I need this usb. I looked how to install it on the hard drive, look easy, create a partition, run program, wait, installed! The problem is, I want to keep my windows partition for maybe future uses but I don't find a way to resize it. So, should I make a live CD or try to find a way to resize the partition and install it on the drive? Any help?

Just run it from a LiveCD for now.
What Windows OS, and what size is the drive?

 

[jonapap]

Tried DamnSmallLinux, I liked it(need to get used to linux!) I am currently running it from my usb I need this usb. I looked how to install it on the hard drive, look easy, create a partition, run program, wait, installed! The problem is, I want to keep my windows partition for maybe future uses but I don't find a way to resize it. So, should I make a live CD or try to find a way to resize the partition and install it on the drive? Any help?

Just run it from a LiveCD for now.
What Windows OS, and what size is the drive?

It is running Windows XP Service Pack 1 with a drive of 30 GB.