<snipped all the preceding nonsense> Hello, everyone. Back in 1993, I decided to try this new thing called Linux, as the commercial Unices were all well beyond the purchasing power of a poor student. Unfortunately, the best distro I could find at the time, Yggdrassil (sp), only came on CD. As we were still using slow modems, and the internet was still in its infancy, the chances of downloading a full Linux distro were non-existent. What was I to do ? I saved my pennies and bought a Toshiba 2.2x CD-ROM drive. Wow, suddenly I found myself in the multimedia age. I got my Linux installed on my 486DX2-50, 16MB RAM machine, and was somewhat disappointed to find out how little it could do at that time. But it was a start. So what's the point of this ? Times change, technology moves forward (often at a frightening pace), and we either have to keep up, or fall behind. If technology did not develop, we would still be using 8088 machines with <1MB RAM, or worse, and TRON would still look super-high-tech. Please stop whining about the lack of sources. If it means that much to you, I'll burn them to a sodding CD for you and mail it to you as soon as my box set arrives. Stuart.