I'm goint to give XFCE a try today. Partitioning: I have 2 HD's, 9.2 gb and 8.6 gb. What sort of partitioning scheme gives the best performance? At the moment I have: hda: Ext 3 / 280 MB Ext 3 /usr 3.4 GB Ext 3 /var 3.2 GB swap swap 2.0 GB Ext 3 /tmp 300 MB hdb: Ext 3 /home 8.6 GB -- Ozitraveller