My wife had one Windows crash too many and bought a new Mac. I will soon inherit the laptop and hope to put Linux on it, giving it a whole new lease on life as there appears to be nothing wrong with the hardware. I plan on using this primarily at work on those occasions when I could go to a building and connect to a serial port on a FreeBSD server which is, for whatever reason, not on the network. Of course, it will hopefully be useful for anything else one would use a portable computer for, but this is my main plan. As it is, I would need to buy one of those USB to serial converters for the serial port, but the system does have a sound card which I will probably need to use for the speech. Are any of the free distributions likely to be best to try first? I'll certainly let everybody know how this goes. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list