[nflug] Linux for a (very) old notebook

[Joe]

Hi.  I just got a cheap notebook - very old.  It's a Celeron running Win
98 (until I convert it to Linux - hopefully.)  (Sony Vaio PCG-N505VE
333MHz, 128MB Ram, 6GB HDD).

My old desktop is still working fine with Mandrake 9.1 and I have
kubuntu gutsy on my recent notebook, so those are the distros I am
familiar with (both use kde).

This "new" notebook can't handle a latest-greatest distro.

What distro(s) would be a good match for this oldie?

I plan to use it primarily for writing text documents with OOo writer
and for web browsing with Firefox.

Any ideas appreciated - especially about which distros might do the best
job of hardware detection.

TIA

Joe