Regarding the question about a minimalstic Desktop installation, I would look into installing a basic system without Gnome or KDE. As far as a M$ Word filterable editor, look into StarOffice (which is large and clunky) or the newer abiword (which compiles with either gtk or gnome, I think). I believe gnumeric requires gnome components and libraries to run, but it's by far the best for importing Excel documents. A very simple plain-text editor would be nano, but vim or emacs would give you much more power. The newest Mozilla is fairly snappy, so I wouldn't let it scare you off, though the standard netscape 4.78 works well. Good luck! -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020211/fe582517/attachment.pgp