My dad is offering me his four-year-old IBM laptop, but I want to make sure that it can keep up with what I usually do. Normally, I would say no, as I already have a small collection of old laptops that are practically dinosaurs, but even though this one is a Pentium 300, it's got 588MB of memory (max limit), so it might still be able to keep up. In any case, I'm planning on bring a copy of Knoppix to test it out, but can anyone else suggest ways to test its "horsepower"? I'm looking at real world stuff, so I intend to bring along a program to compile, and Knoppix already provides Ogg files to play, but one thing that concerns me is that Knoppix will already be hogging the memory, so I won't get as accurate a picture as I would like. Suggestions welcome. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive! _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list