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[Tracker]

@The Fifth Horseman: I took that one into account, but I assumed it wouldn't be suitable since it is too small to contain anything useful for me.

@dosraider: P4 refers to my CPU, as Pentium 4 processors had a clocktime of app. 2Ghz. Mine is an obscure one, an AMD Athlon at 1,7 Ghz. But yes, I believe I might have memory issues, as every error message refers to the software I'm running being unable to read/write certain addresses of the 512MB DDR RAM module.

I think I'll try the ones you mentioned, first Kubuntu, and if it won't be good enough, then I'll give Xubuntu a try.

EDIT: I downloaded Kubuntu and burnt a bootable disc, but it was way too slow for me. I think I'll go with DSL, I read that it can be used for everything I need, and the screenshots look good as well. But that is scheduled for tomorrow.

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by Tracker

I downloaded Kubuntu and burnt a bootable disc, but it was way too slow for me. I think I'll go with DSL, I read that it can be used for everything I need, and the screenshots look good as well. But that is scheduled for tomorrow.

Seeing your specs:

Originally Posted by Tracker

@dosraider: P4 refers to my CPU, as Pentium 4 processors had a clocktime of app. 2Ghz. Mine is an obscure one, an AMD Athlon at 1,7 Ghz.

An AMD Athlon 1.7GHz / 512 MB should run Kubuntu without any glitch, and should be pretty fast.
But:

Originally Posted by Tracker

I believe I might have memory issues, as every error message refers to the software I'm running being unable to read/write certain addresses of the 512MB DDR RAM module.

That's another matter.
My advise: run memtest, can get it free@
http://www.memtest86.com/
Errors must be zero. If you can't rely on your memory you can't trust your PC.
Sometimes it can help to get the module out , cleaning the contact surface with alcohol ( gently !! ) and stick it back in. And whilst you're there, clean up the inside of your PC if needed.

Believe me , if you can't run Kubuntu pretty fast on an AMD 1.7GHz/500MB there is something completely wrong with your PC.

[Tracker]

Well, I have ran memtest before (back in the days of Ubuntu 9.10 I guess, when it still had it at the boot screen), and let it work for a whole afternoon, but there were no red sectors anywhere on the memory map (note that there were problems with my computer before and after that as well). I dunno what might be the problem. The RAM wasn't removed ever since it was plugged in, around in 2004 (I had a 256 MB RAM to start with, but later it was replaced with a single half gigabytes one). Besides, it's funny that two very different OSs, like Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP would produce similar problems - at least, Linux seems to have just as much bugs as Windows does...

Damn Small Linux: It looks nice and everything while running from CD, but the mouse doesn't work, and I couldn't find a fix yet.

EDIT: Cleaned RAM and placed it into another slot, awaiting results.