I first starting using Linux on a Windows 98 (1st Ed) machine from 1998. This was 3 years ago, and Puppy functioned quite well. This machine had a 400 MHz PII processor w/224 MB of RAM. Too little RAM for the whole base squash file to get copied to RAM, but the OS was in no way bogging down the system.
With Puppy, you have the added benefit of not having to repartition or reformat your whole hard drive. You can install one of the XFCE SFS files to make the desktop environment more friendly to your cousin.
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