Hi Slackware is great for a custom system. I once had to send my laptop's hard disk back to be repaired and I ran the complete system off a zipdisk with zipslack, patched with a kernel for speakup. I removed a lot of packages I did not need and added libraries that I needed and programs like smb and mpg123 for playing mp3s over my room mate and my network. I used ppp, and everything, aim, with emacs, lynx, can't remember if I had ssl, do not think so, but no problem cause I could just telnet, I had pico and workbone for playing cd audio, had alsa modules for sound, PCMCIA support for my nic and modem which my kernel picked up too. I do not know as much about debian which I currently have installed as I did about slackware, but if you don't mind compiling new packages or if you have a miniture system you need to heavily customize slack is the best way to do it, you need little more to install packages than tar andgunzip.. Patrick ----- Patrick Turnage E-mail: pturnage at tampabay.rr.com AOL Instant Messenger: kg4dqk Home Page: http://www.access-connect.com
