[Lexinom]

I've worked on Tandem, Unix, and as a kid learned during the early days of the PC (all-inclusive, incl. Apple, Commodore, Atari, etc., not just IBM).

Linux is looking like a legitimate option.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Slackware based systems are the leanest of the various Linux variants....Slax is a live CD that is pretty lean...and I have been using Vector Linux pretty heavily,

It is superresponsive, shutsdown quick, comes up faster than most of the majors like Fedora, SUSE, etc.....with Firefox and some horsepower...is a great web browser.....

By the way what are your applications?