Sonuva gun! It looked to me as if it were the real thing. And easy, intuitive, that sort of thing.

Maybe I'll push everything onto one of my HDs and try gentoo on the smaller one, but I'm not thinking there's much hope for me.

And, I don't listen to music on the thing, don't instant message, do use word processing, spreadsheets, maintain a web site, email, and that's about it. Create greeting cards, make up certificates for folks, nothing elaborate.

Browse a lot, and research "stuff", but that's probably easily done with Opera and Google or, preferably, AllTheWeb.

I'll try to do two things. One, gulp, taaakke advice, and two, learn from your experience. I have enough trouble learning from mine.

Thanks a lot.

Arf