Old Dell LATITUDE D600

[DougieFresh4U]

I have an old, old Dell LATITUDE D600 laptop.
20GB hard drive and 512RAM
Intel pentium M - processor 1.60GHz
MOBILITY RADEON 9000
Laptop is brand new with Win XP, didn't even have any of
the Windows updates on it.
I am not sure what 'flavor' of linux to install.
It has 2 USB ports, so I can use flash drive to run.
I tried Puppy Slacko and it ran good but I noticed it
was KDE and I haven't had much luck with KDE on any
of my desktops over the years. I also tried Tahr 6.0.2 and
that was kind of 'lagging' a little. These were run as 'live'.
I am open to suggestions please on what to install for
just basic internet surfing and email.
Thanks

[deepakdeshp]

You can use Chromium

http://www.pcworld.com/article/183136/how_to_install_chrome_os_from_a_usb_drive.html

[mörgæs]

Chromium OS as mentioned above is an option (and your thread will probably attract lots of other suggestions), another is an alternate Lubuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Alternate_ISO).

With 512 MB of memory you will face some limitation, for example you may not be able to run all live distros.

[sudodus]

Adding to the list of possible light-weight distros, that are worth trying:

Puppy linux - Wary Puppy or Tahrpup,
LXLE - the version based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
ToriOS - not released yet, but already quite functional

[DougieFresh4U]

ToriOS - not released yet, but already quite functional

Thank you so much! Never heard of ToriOS but I put it on DVD and
popped it in, after much struggle getting DVD tray open.
Booted right up and it was the easiest install I have ever dealt with!!
Now to get some kind of wifi 'dongle' as there is no wifi card in the machine.
Thank you so much.
Dougie