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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GNU hates anything, and it particularly hates binary distribution because they are a bunch of losers with too much time on their hands and too much CPU power available to waste compiling shit OVER AND OVER AND OVER, with all those piece of shit of a mess configure scripts and makefiles.

BTW, for all small to medium-sized projects, and unless you anal your users to compile it themselves, the sum of the time saved by using make to avoid recompiling modules is lower than the time you spend on writing the makefile and all.