EASY! I went and bought the Mandrake 8.1 release and with the help of my fanatical friend we set it up on my second hard drive. Well really I set it up, there wasnt much to do. I put the cd in, rebooted, hit yes or no a few times and it did all the work. I had heard from a lot of people that you had to be some kind of computer wizard(which I am not) to be able to use Linux. On the set up it found all the stuff in my computer, set up my cable connection and booted right up. LOL it even set up a menu at the start so I could choose if I wanted to boot Windows or Linux. The only thing I am really curious about right now what is the best internet browser to use? The Konqueror(sp?) is ok but not many bells or whistles. I just wanted to thank you all for the advice. I am going to start learning the system a little and see how it goes. I will let you know. Again thanks for the help. Xeo

If you don''t mind the advertisement you can try Opera (6.0 is really nice, I wish they had the beta out for Linux also, it fixes a lot of the bugs I reported heh). Galeon is nice too (it''s basically Mozilla integrated more into Gnome). Skipstone is another Mozilla offspring, I haven''t tried it. But, I normally use Opera anyway...

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