Hi! Bob,

On Sun, 09 Feb 14, you wrote to me:

 BK>  Aha... puppy linux. I have just been thinking about going back
 BK>  to playing with that. Never did much with it. Thinking ahead to
 BK>  when Win 98 finally dies. If that ever happens.

For me, Puppy was the only thing that made sense back in '09.  I had a
P-III with less than 1gig RAM, and was doing VirtualBox things on it...
very carefully, mind you.  I had three DOS vBox systems that ran
occasionally and an XP vBox that was used sparingly, whenever I needed to
do anything in MS Office and across the LAN to Barb's XP Pro PC.

Anthing else of a Debian/Ubuntu type requires ~800Mb RAM just for itself. 
A basic Puppy system uses way less than that.

Cheers,
Paul.

... If only women came with pull-down menus and online help.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox