What is my old system still good for? Linux? XP?

[TerminatorXT]

I have a 10 year old system that is currently biting the dust
It has a Pentium 4 at 1.5GHZ and 256MB of Ram
it has a dedicated Nvidia gfx card ( I do not know which card it is though)

also, it doesn't have an ethernet port (so I need ideas here)
I do not know what expansion slots it has, and its deep in my storage room so I wont go and check unless I have a real reason too

Recently I've gotten into web design and stuff like that
I'm not planning to host my site from it on linux
but I was hoping to install linux, put a remote control program on and use it from other places

so Linux? if so which one? one with a GUI please
XP, is not worth the hassle so nope

 

[jsc]

Lack of an ethernet port is easy to fix - plug in card, about $20 the last time I checked.

 

[MrDrift]

well...
i reckon you should use either xubuntu or DSL (Damn Small Linux)

both of these you run on your computer just fine

and get that ethernet card like jsc suggested

 

[goodbye_gravity]

Ethernet card and Linux Mint. Linux Mint is very easy to use if you are new to linux.