Hi, I'm very surprised at this. I had no problem running Firefox and a media player. Jus hit Alt+F1, use the arrows as you would in Windows and Enter to run a program. It's very slow but it worked well enough for me. I didn't like it because I was limited to software speech and no Speakup support. I went with grml and am happy with it. Kelly Sapergia wrote: > I don't know what GRML is like (I've got the live CD but haven't > burned it yet), but at least with Ubuntu's CD, I couldn't really do > much after loading it. I was able to try navigating it's equivalent > to the Start Menu, but couldn't seem to activate anything like the > OpenOffice word processor. I'm assuming you'd have to install Ubuntu > fully onto the hard drive for the applications to work correctly. >