Again, find the right tool for the job. DamnSmall boots fast and has GUI editors that don't need a lot of RAM. DamnSmall does have some quirks, but they are easy to figure out. Mounting HDD partitions RW was a bit stubborn, but doable and certain functions are best done from a Root xterm or from their hacked file manager. It has some features built-in to get around problems if you know what you are doing, but not allow a newbie to do stuff by mistake.

Brian Kelsay

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Leo Mauler <> 12/30/04 02:16PM >>>

True enough. I've always thought a "crawl" basically meant "a speed wherein it takes longer to open the application than it does to finish some real work on the application."

KNOPPIX in 96MB means I usually type things in a CLI editor anyway, even if its in an XTerm window. KWrite or GEdit if I'm desperate for a GUI Editor.