Seeing as no one else has mentioned it, can I put in a vote for Debian? Sure, it's a bitch to get everything up and running, and you'll be pulling your hair out before you've got your soundcard to actually play an mp3, but by the end of it you'll have had a pretty decent introduction to the thing that makes linux so much fun... ..that is, editing config files, of course! OK, I'm (kinda) joking, but I do think it's worth putting a debian install on there if you have space. I've learned a whole hell of lot from using it, and I've know got it running on a Athlon box and a couple of old-ish powerbooks, and it works great. Apt-get and dselect are works of genius (though now available for other distros too, of course) -- and if you want shiny new KDE 3 / Gnome 2 desktops etc., then debian-unstable is a fun place to fool around, and surprisingly un-unstable too. Unfortunately I won't be able to make the installfest, but I'm sure Debian CDs wouldn't be too hard to find on this listserve if you were interested. best, Nick _______________________________________________ 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