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The other day I "rescued" an Intel Celerion P500+ box from the recycling centre as it looked in good condition, complete with a removable HDD tray. I checked it out and found that someone had installed SuSE v10 on it, found it incredibly slow and promptly junked it. I intended to use it to upgrade my IPCop box but firstly installed Damn Small Linux on the HDD to check the box see what DSL was like. It ran so fast that I then installed it on this, my old IPCop box, a P133 with 96Mb of RAM. Again I was very surprised haw fast the applications on DSL ran. Looks like a very interesting little Debian based distro and ideal as a starter distro for someone with very limited means who is interested in trying GNU/Linux out. There are plenty of applications on this 50Mb distro, including APT. The person who ditched the P500 (leaving his name and address in an Open Office document) did me a favour:-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html