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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Debian is teh fail:
It is never updated (kernel 2.6.8 ?!?!?! HELLO !!!), you have to use their bleeding edge distro just to catch up to last year. Might as well just use Slack and be a man about it.