Damn, a dv6000 series, I had a dv6175 twenty years ago....

What are your plans for it, you mention saving it from ewaste due to it's many ports, so I suspect you will use it for diagnostics or labwork.

If so, you would probably be best suited with an older version of Ubuntu, possibly something like 8.04 or so.

That should run decent on the machine and allow you to use the ports for whatever labwork/testing you may require.

But be careful and avoid browsing the public internet with it.