Sorry, I couldn't resist :o) On Monday 29 March 2004 09:31, Jake Anderson wrote: > for many computers windows 98 is about all they can run > try running mandrake 9.2 on a P1-200. > linux is a large collection of small tools. windows is a small collection > of large tools. I'm running a PII-300 with Debian unstable (lots more stable than Redhat 7.2, IMHO) and my very reason to switch to GNU/Linux was that my PC was very sluggish with win98 on it. It runs KDE 3.2.1 faster than it ran win98se. GNU/Linux is more a HUGE collection of tools of any size. But only the smaller tools are installed by 'default', because the large tools are mostly for very specific tasks. So the for large tools you need, you will have to install by yourself. But they are (mostly) there. But you are right, some parts of GNU/Linux aren't yet mother-proof. Mothers can easily use a system (is my experience, but perhaps my mother is still young compared to yours) but configuring/maintaining a GNU/Linux system requires a mom with a bit of sysadmin education ;o) Koen -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.