DistroWatch does not list Bodhi as suitable for old computer

Probably an oversight. I mailed them about it.

Hmm. Is it fixed? I can not see Bodhi among old computers category.

My two cents: The sweet spot for Bodhi is not old computers but computers like my machine:

Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 3180 v: 1.2.0 serial: DJQZ4L2
Mobo: Dell model: 0918N8 v: A00 serial: .DJQZ4L2.CNWSC0081T00HJ. UEFI: Dell v: 1.2.0 date: 02/09/2018
Memory: RAM: total: 3.73 GiB used: 1.10 GiB (29.6%)
Array-1: capacity: 8 GiB note: est. slots: 1 EC: None
Device-1: DIMM 0 size: 4 GiB speed: 1200 MT/s
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A6-9220e RADEON R4 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 1024 KiB
Speed: 1245 MHz min/max: 1200/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1206 2: 1220

This is a 5 year old machine that can very barely run Windows 10 but on this machine Bodhi is a rocket - Chromium is very responsive even with 10+ tabs opened. My experience running conventional distros like Bodhi on old computers - 1GB RAM, ~1GHz CPU - has been painful. Although they can run some applications well it will be a tortoise as soon as you start browsing. (Alternative low resource browsers that I have tried all seem to have problems.) In my opinion, old hardware is not suitable for browsing modern websites and browsing is probably 90% of what most users do.

In my opinion, with respect to lightness unconventional distros like SliTaz is in a different class from conventional distros like Bodhi. SliTaz uses some very innovative features to mitigate for the small size of RAM and the slow speed of disks. Conventional distros initially run from a filesystem in RAM disk which was uncompressed from initrd.gz then mounts and transitions to the real disk filesystem. In SliTaz the RAM disk filesystem is the filesystem - it does not transition to a disk filesystem. SliTaz replaces glibc with MUSL a more memory efficient implementation of GNU libc. SliTaz replaces hundreds of Linux binaries with a single binary /bin/busybox, e.g. /bin/init is really a link to /bin/busybox. SliTaz does not use a disk partition or disk file as swap space. It uses a special device /dev/zram as swap space. /dev/zram is implemented using RAM. Swapping is done by compressing/decompressing blocks and writing/reading to/from RAM not disk. The most amazing thing I have seen is that SliTaz starts out using ~70MB of RAM then as you use applications (including FireFox) it will use 600MB of RAM. However, when you exit these applications it will return to using ~70MB of RAM. I have not seen another distro that returns to the initial RAM usage. There are significant downsides: You may not be able to run normal Linux binaries. Because of MUSL you should use binaries custom built for SliTaz. If you want a new application to persists you must run a utility that rebuilds the initrd.gz which is hassle. However, if I wanted a better experience on a really old computer I would use a distro like SliTaz.

I´ve been using Antix for six months, on an old netbook ( Celeron 1,3Ghz, 2,5GB Ram, OS on SD Card ), and it works very good.
Of course, it starts to have troubles when you try to watch YT videos or you surf on "heavy" webpages.
Two weeks ago, I installed Bodhi 7.0 RC, and I must say that the performance are more or less the same, and the initial boot is even faster.

No critics intended, I still believe that Antix is an amazing distro.