I have a laptop that's real nice now, it isn't state of the art but it's a lot better then the 486/25 I've had for years. It's a Micron TransPort XKE Pentium 266 MMX 64 mb RAM (gona need mo ram!) [196mb max] 4 GIG hard disk (I can have KDE :-D ) CDROM :-) Floppy Drive 2 PCMCIA -56k Modem and 10BaseT :-) NeoMagic 128 XD (only 2 mb RAM :-( ) 13.3 inch active matrix LCD that does 1024x768 :-) USB 8-) PS2 mouse and keyboard :-) a touch pad, hmmmmm.... (not sure if thats good or not) a track point, yuck... (just my opinion) To put a battery in it I have to take out the floppy drive. I wonder how Linux will take a missing floppy drive? I installed Redhat 8 because I have the CD's, that doesn't mean I want to stay with it. First, X Windows is slow on this machine, it looks nice but it crawls. If I went to Redhat 6 I bet it would scream. Maybe it's just me but I haven't liked any version of Redhat sense 6.X because X windows crawls. The only thing that doesn't work is the sound (one of the things I really wanted) so I'm off to look for "sndconfig"... Mmmmm "Chicago, 25 or 6 to 4" got sound :-) I'm almost a happy camper I need a distribution that will run X Windows faster. Maybe at an install fest I can do some testing. The hard disk is easy to swap, that's a good thing. Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG 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