Gentoo + olvwm => Bye Ubuntu

In a previous blog entry I had gone into gory detail about selecting a distro to run on my ancient Toshiba laptop (which has just 256MB of memory). I have a laptop of similar vintage which will soon be reaching its 20'th birthday which I use for all of my internet access/browsing. It currently runs Ubuntu 16.04 and my attempts at "upgrading" it to newer versions of Ubuntu have all failed, stymied…