Slackware is looking really nice.

And yes, the new OS will demand better hardware, but is that there fault, when hasnt a new os had higher hardare requirements. That is only natural. Do people expect a new OS to run on old hardware as good as XP did? I hope not.

I've seen XP run on a system that I didnt think it was going to, and it ran well, not fast, but well. It was a Pentium 2 with 64megs of ram. Try that with vista.