and apps that have been patched than to run Slackware 4 or Red Hat 5 . The GUI is also much more pleasant with recent software, and even a Pentium 200 with 64 MB RAM can run quite acceptably using a nicely customised recent IceWM or Fluxbox etc. Until last year when the motherboard died, one of my machines was exactly as above, running Ubuntu with a choice of Fluxbox or Xfce4. Peter