[Liverpool] Advice

[Sujita Purushothaman]

Hi,
  Hoping some people here will have good suggestions. I have an old 
laptop that currently runs on Windows 98 ( :-) ). It has 10GB hard disk 
space and 128 MB RAM. Pretty old. I want to install linux on it. I 
wouldn't be storing much data on it, I'd still like to leave Windows on 
it, so I have 5GB to play with. What distros are lightweight, but have a 
easy to use package management system? ( I would need python (+devel) 
and gcc libs immediately). Thanks!

Rgds,
Sujita