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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The only difference is: the high performance racing car is much faster than the normal thing. Self-compiled programs are around 0.001 % faster than a precompiled one.
Have fun with your Placebo.

But if you need it: You can completely compile your system with any other distro, too. Even with FreeBSD which isn't even a Linux.