[angryoldfatman]

My personal recommendation for the Asus machine you’re talking about is Mint or Ubuntu running the xfce GUI.

Mint 32-bit xfce:
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=169

Mint 64-bit xfce:
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=170

Xubuntu
http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/

[roamer_1]

My personal recommendation for the Asus machine you’re talking about is Mint or Ubuntu running the xfce GUI.

Thanks. I'll give it a whirl... This is gonna be fun. It's been a long time since I had a 'for the fun of it' project... And I'd love to put the old girl back in service.

[roamer_1]

My personal recommendation for the Asus machine you’re talking about is Mint or Ubuntu running the xfce GUI.

Just to note to thank you once again for your recommendation. I am writing this missive from my Asus EeePC running Mint/xfce 32bit... Spun it in last night in about 20 minutes... As far as I can tell, it picked up everything perfectly and is running nicely - Noticeably quicker than w/ WinXP! It still lags a little, but it is definitely useable - More so than it ever has before.

SWEET. Thanks very much.