Gateway Solo 2550 P3 (again)

Hey yall,

I was actually able to get this hard drive imaged from this laptop so I feel good about wiping it and using it now. I also ordered an ide to sd adapter so I can run off that instead the OG hard drive but anyway.

My question is, what would you install on this? I was thinking freedos would run best- however then I thought maybe win 98 or puppylinux may work too. It has win2k, but it runs very very slowly on that.

Mainly I want to use it for old dos games and software, but there is so much win 98 software out there too so im not sure. Linux would be fun but I already have a couple other linux laptops.