Which OSX for my tangerine iBook?

I have an old tangerine iBook, with 300 MHZ G3 processor.
It has 288 MB of Ram & a 30 GB hard drive.
I think this is the P1 (original) iBook.... Is that right?
I would like to know which OSX would work best on this computer... Jaguar? Panther? Tiger?
I am a newbie, so don't be too techie with me!
Thanks for the advice...!!!!

Hi Olivia,
That's exactly what I have done with my daughter's Tangerine iBook - started off with a standard Panther installation and have kept the system current in every way up to 10.3.9.
She has no problems with her computer, it runs fine.
You would only need XPostFacto if you tried to install Tiger on your iBook, but why bother - Panther is quite adequate. Most of the new Tiger goodies are inaccessible to these iBooks because of hardware limitations anyway.
Cheers!
Karl

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