With 1GB or more of memory, you don't need a specific distro. The most popular ones should run, albeit with not too much ram to spare for browsing with the defa

With 1GB or more of memory, you don't need a specific distro. The most popular ones should run, albeit with not too much ram to spare for browsing with the default desktop. You only need to install a lighter wm like icewm, windowmaker or fvwm and you are good to go. And if those machines haven't soldered components, a wee bit more ram and replacing the spinning drives with SSDs would transform them to something functionally very modern. Having said that I would have probably gone the openbsd/netbsd route with those machines.