Yes, Welcome Syd. (I'm new myself anyway.) What distro's have you tried so far? I'm still coming to grips with red hat on an old cronky box at home, networked to a windows machine, and at a laptop at work which I'm trying to get up and running on a network. (Yes, still not there with the pcmcia, but getting closer!). I'm getting curious as to what some of the others are like, though, especially as I have a couple of freebie discs at home, - slackware, corel, debian - all waiting to be tried sometime. I thought it would be better to get completely familiar with one first before looking at the next. Kerin - are you related to Brian on this list? Just nosey. Jenny.