Super lightweight Linux LiveCD to run on ancient PC with very little RAM?

[KatanaDV20]

Hey guys I need your help since Im dont know much about Linux and the various distros out there

I have a friend who has an *ancient* PC...Im talking 8 years old at least. Its has like 250MB RAM etc. She is having a LOT of trouble with it (it struggles with XP Home). The thing takes 30 minutes (yes...thirty) to boot to the desktop

My idea was to have her use an extremely lightweight LinuxLiveCD. All she wants to do is browse the web checking her email. Thats it. If she likes it she can do a permanent install.

However the RAM is so little that the distro of choice must have a small memory footprint. Ideally it would have Firefox with codecs to play YouTube etc.

Could you please suggest one?

I will then burn her a LiveCD and we can see how that works until she saves her money to get a new computer.

Thank you

 

[KatanaDV20]

Awesome, thanks a lot guys! Will check out your suggestions now. She is open to binning windows which is good. Interested to see how it handles these distros suggested! That Arora sounds cool, Id never heard of it but just read up on it on Wikki.