On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:38:32PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > 9.2 was the only version i ever used (and didn't totally hate), it was > the only distro that everything worked off the bat with my ancient > laptop, debian with 99% of the system modified was quite good though, > now i'm playing with gentoo.. will likely go back to debian sid though. Try OpenBSD unmodified on your ancient laptop. It will probably work out of the box. Doug.