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[Tom <question77445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77445 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77445

Tom proposed the following answer:
200MHz cpu is below openSUSE min.spec as well i think.  Even tho ram is higher than required for Xubuntu i found even Xubuntu distressingly slow on a 350MHz machine.  Ubuntu 9.04 needs 700MHz cpu and 512Mb ram so even if you do get 8.04 working then you'll have to stick with that, although many people are sticking with 8.04 because it's an LTS release which means it gets bug-fixes first, before 9.04 and is fully supported until late 2010 or something :)  So maybe Xubuntu 8.04 might be ideal for this machine :)
http://www.xubuntu.org/get#hardy

However, i would really aim at a much lighter distro that will be less sluggish.  Debian itself is often excellent and is kinda head of the family that Ubuntu is in.  Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 would be good, one of their recent beta versions might also be excellent.  Forget sliTaz, that's for very tiny & low spec machines - it would make your machine fly but i think you can cope with something a lot heftier.  Vector & Zenwalk, like Wolvix are also in the slackware family so they tend to be quite light and fast, but also like Wolvix in having a good range of apps already included and plenty in their repos. 
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vector
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian

You might want to compare these against the Ubuntu pages at DistroWatch
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xubuntu

Also the home-page at DistroWatch might be worth looking through but
you'll need to make sure the min.spec. required by each distro is less
than your machine - that still leaves the way open for a lot of distros
but just not the big names; RedHat, Mandriva, Fedora, openSUSE

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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