Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

> Is Ubuntu simply a massive resource hog, or is it possible that there some kind of hardware incompatibility?  If it's possible to run a modern Linux distro on this machine then I would like to have another go if anyone has any suggestions (either a suitable distro or how to make Xubuntu run at usable speed).

Ditch the GUI and work at the command line as God intended, and even 
Pentium I's seem relatively speedy under just about any flavor of  Linux.

Nate
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