Need old and very stable edition

[camelface]

Hello, my aunt has a 2001 Dell computer with 256MB RAM. Since it is not a fast computer, I was thinking of putting an older Ubuntu edition that might not have taken much juice (correct me if the newer ones don't take any more than the older ones).

Since my aunt knows nothing about computers, I was wondering if there is an edition of Ubuntu that was particularly stable and trouble-free, like 10.10 seems to be for me.

Thanks for the help! Her computer has a virus in windows. I don't recall if Ubuntu startup disk would give the option of deleting windows and installing only Ubuntu?

[Markmental]

get her xubuntu 10.04 long term support it is stable and it is basically ubuntu modified for slower pc'shttp://www.xubuntu.org/getubuntu#lucid

[silex89]

Maybe you should try Crunchbang Linux, very nice, light and stable distro based on Debian :D

[67GTA]

I've been impressed with Lubuntu. It seems faster than Xubuntu. I installed Lubuntu on my external drive, and it is pretty snappy even on the thin clients at work. http://lubuntu.net/

[MartyBuntu]

Maybe you should try Crunchbang Linux, very nice, light and stable distro based on Debian :D

I had Crunchbang 8.10 on a PIII 700Mhz 256MB RAM Dell laptop I used to own.
It was well suited to the hardware. I agree.