Linux is working on this old desktop a PII 350Mhz with 256MB. Out of the box Evolution would not read the mail from the other but after Yast twice (once for about 40 patches and once for the Kernal that was fixed upon reboot. I dont have a burner on this box so Ill test that next week when I backup. 9.1 took 90 minutes for a clean install 8.2 took 70 minutes. network had issues but tests proved that was the university's fault. Boots slightly slow on this box and the setup presumes you have a monitor with 1280X1024 but as the home monitor does thats manageable. Mozilla which was on the speedbar did not start so I removed it and manued over and dragged to bar and it works, must be in new location. Sound works out of the box. On this box local time was recognized and accepted on the PIII where all was a clean install including formatting /home UTC was default but that was a simple fix. On the issue of using the previous users at install I told the system to create each user and when the system found the preexisting directorys it prompted me to automagically change owner for the new numerical system which starts at 1000. Later as root I did a system adduser for the second user and that also worked as had the install setup. All in all having used 7.0 upto 9.1 for ease of use speed of install and perfomance this is the best yet but I do expect to need another PIII by the time 10.x comes out. On another note install did not recognize my dos partitions but I saved the old fstab so Ill just edit and see how it goes. CWSIV