help me pick a flavor of linux

I recently obtained a win98 laptop and feel like using it to play around with Linux. I need something rather light on resouces and with a good support community for if/when I need help. What do you suggest?

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Gentoo is much faster because it is OPTIMISED for YOUR HARDWARE, because you compile it yourself.

Gentoo is like a high performance racing car. It needs a good deal of tuning.