If you have an older PC, or a small single board computer-based system, you probably want to run a version of Linux that’s light on resources and easy to download. Tale a look at very small footprint Linux distros. With the exception of Damn Small Linux, all have been updated relatively recently. Each distro can run on machines with less than 1GB of RAM and most can run in a much smaller footprint.
[Source: ZDNet]
