I am looking at a used PC for a workhorse to use for low-end stuff like light web browsing and wordprocessing, homework, etc. And was wondering: what Linux distros can I run comfortably without running slow as molasses? I certainly don't need a speed abaundance, though. Here's the specs-

INTEL PENTIUM III 450MHZ CPU
INTEL E139761 BX MOTHERBOARD
128MB SDRAM
6.4GB HARD DRIVE
DVD-ROM DRIVE
3.5" FLOPPY DRIVE
8MB SIS6326 AGP VIDEO
IBM PCI ETHERNET
INTEGRATED YAMAHA PCI SOUND
2 REAR USB PORTS
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh and another thing - can I run
1)Wine
2)OpenOffice.org
on this comp? thanx.

The actual distro you use won't matter as much as which window manager you use. KDE will probably be too slow, but if you choose a lighter (less bloated) one, it should be fine.

I would of course recomend gentoo but this is biased. I think almost any distro will do just don't use a heavy desktop like kde or gnome. I like iceWM or xfce and it should work fine. I built a computer like that for my brother: a P2 500 with 128Mb & sis graphics it runs suse 9.2 pro with IceWM and it runs open office just fine. don't expect alot of speed out of wine though.

Put DSL on it. Very lightweght and shoul run really fast! It pretty much will satisfy your needs and you can add anything it does not have.
Hope that helps!

I think that SLAX is a good distro for your PC. It is a livecd but can also be installed on the HDD. I had tried it (not installed it, just tried it) about a year ago and was running smoothly enough on a similar machine.