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[Juanca]

Hi I just received an old laptop
with 256 mb of ram, pentium 4 inside...

It is running with windows xp service pack 1. I cleaned it up and left only
office 2003, newest version of firefox, boclean, ccleaner, avira antivirus latest version, vlc media player. IT is running ok, but kind of slow at the start (I was not expecting anything else anyway)

It will be a computer mainly for internet browsing, and entertainment: movies and music mainly (for the children).

Do you think I can enhance its performance if I switch to the latest version of ubuntu? With this OS is it true that I should not worry about antiviruses and antispywares or firewalls? So this means I can get rid of the antivirus and antispyware stuff?
I have read about it and seems an interesting option but I would like to receive some feedback from real users (and mainly if someone has the same situation using ubuntu on an old laptop)

Any other suggestion most than welcome