Hi Alan, On Wed, Aug 11, 2004, Alan Colburn wrote: >I could either reformat an old laptop >(166 MHz, ~90 Mb RAM, 2G HD) or find space on a newer machine. Which path >would you recommend? I would download Slackware Linux for the laptop (www.slackware.com) . It is designed to run on a 486 and onwards. Cheers Nick.