A relative of mine has the oldest version of the asus eee pc, it has a 900 MHz celeron mobile cpu, 512MB RAM and 4GB HDD. It also has some kind of old linux distribution that i am unable to upgrade, and she is starting to have problems with gmail and skype, because she is using a 3 year old version. Given that she only uses that computer for those 2 tasks, what up to date linux distribution would work and would recognise all the hardware on that machine?
I was thinking about xubuntu 11.10, but i don't know it that machine has enough space to hold it, and is compatible with built in webcam and microphone (this is a must).