This weekend I ended up installing Ubuntu Linux onto an old machine that was choking under Windows XP. Wow. I ended up Remote Desktopping into Windows from Ubuntu to do Windows only things and spent the rest of the weekend in Linux, including finishing up my handout for the Sunday School class that I had to teach yesterday morning. It even connected to my network printer without issues [Yes, I had to configure it a tiny bit, but it wasn’t hard]. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu, there are ‘live CD’ images available. You just download the image, burn it to a disk, and then reboot your computer. Ubuntu looks good, works fast, and makes the old Pentium III 1 Ghz 256 MB or RAM feel like a screamer.
Ubuntu is great (check out my user agent string). I haven’t had much success connecting to my printer, but Lexmark are crap and I’m never buying from them again anyway.
Glad you enjoy it. It makes you wonder why Windows can’t run that fast.