Ok, why is everyone picking on Paul? There are always BSD discussions on here. It's fine. We don't have to create a user group for every stinking topic. I remember when there was all kinds of flaming back and forth about whether a thread should be in TCLUG or TCWUG. EITHER WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE!!! As for your question, Paul, you should try it! My guess is that you're not going to be very happy with the performance on a PIII. The X server and applications are all expecting pretty generous system resources so no matter what OS is underlying that, you're going to have poor performance. There have been a lot of good threads on here about running *nix on older systems though. Many lightweight distros have been recommended. Perhaps someone would like to mention their favorites? I run Arch Linux on an older laptop in my garage, and use Xmonad and the Midori web browser. It works great for having Gmail open, and looking stuff up related to whatever I happen to be doing. -Erik PS Hey look, I pulled it back on topic!!! -- Erik K. Mitchell erik.mitchell at gmail.com