I am considering installing ubuntu or something like that on some old, small machines. xubuntu could be a good choice (I understand that is based also on gtk, so most gnome programs should work). But even xubuntu could be to large. What other good options are there, to maintain some compatibility with gnome programs? We need absolutely GNU emacs with auctex for tex/latex stuff, and abiword or even openoffice would be nice. Also firefox. ¿What options are there? Kjetil -- "Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature." - Hermann Weyl