I have a 6/7 year old Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop which came with: 1GB DDR RAM, 120GB HDD, (Dual core?) AMD Turion Processor, Windows Vista Home Premium which now boots extremely slowly.
I'd prefer to replace it with a light/full version of Ubuntu which runs fairly well. Any suggestions on which version of Ubuntu to install on it, and any GUI options (Kubuntu/Lubuntu) which would make it perform faster.
I would like to mention that I do use Scientific Linux and Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10 on a daily basis, but I have no knowledge of past versions and how well they would run on slower laptops.
Thank you in advance for any help and suggestions.