Ive been playing around with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, via their
Live CD.

**** me running but its good.

I simply stuck in the live cd which I downloaded the ISO file from
www.ubuntu.org, and rebooted my old utility box. A 700 meg P3 (coppermine)
box with a couple hds and 256meg memory and a small 15" HP monitor.

It found my USR 56k external modem, it found my network card, and it
easily allowed me to stick my other networked computers on the desktop so
I can access them easily with a single click.

It comes with a very decent assortment of programs of all sorts, the GUI
is pretty intuitive and easily run.

I also tried this on 3 different boxes, incluiding a 250 meg Compaq
laptop. With a single exception..Ubuntu configured itself easily very
litte intervention from me.
The single exception was with a FrankenPC with multipile harddrives, and
multiple CD roms, and DVD players. It hung up on the CD probe at 92%..no
matter what I did.

Next week, Ill download the full install version and install it here on my
linux box, which is running Mepis at the moment, which, up until I
discovered Ubuntu..was the best quick and dirty version Id found to date.

If you want to dabble with Linux....try the Ubuntu LIVE CD. It will NOT
harm any of your existing system files, and you simply turn the computer
off..remove the cd..and reboot to be back in your old operating system.

There are versions on the Ubuntu website for just about any machine
archetecture, from 386s to Macs to Sun workstations.

Good **** Maynard!!

Gunner, Posting with Pan newsreader via Ubuntu