Now I know this falls under the 10 year category except for the video card and SCSI card: I'm slapping together (finally) a P200 (not even MMX) Linux box with a classic AMD 10Mbit PCI NIC (Sridhar got me hooked on 'em and they certainly are tanks), an old AT motherboard with most likely a serial mouse to keep it as classic as possible and a 250 watt p/s. Running the beast will be an old 2GB IDE Maxtor I dug up, an old 4x IDE CD-ROM (Toshiba?) and then 2 Seagate 4/4.5GB half-height drives I have laying around, attached to a Diamond Fireport 20/40 (non-ultra). For video, it'll have a PCI Jaton TNT2m64 32MB so I can at least get decent color when I'm messing with some of the graphical stuff. I'll be using a 14 year old (still works fine) clickity Ultra 2000 AT keyboard with the beast. Oh, sound will be one of the original full length Creative Sound Blaster 16's with Daughter Card (dated 1990?). The big question is: should I go with Slackware or GenToo Linux as my OS? This unit will be doing a little web serving and will become my email server since friend's server is unreliable lately (Win2k on a college dorm network - obviously off when it goes home with the guy at breaks). I know some are suggesting NetBSD, but I'm looking to make this thing easy enough so my gf can tinker with it and get converted from her eeewh, XP OS, while making it not so much of a chore to do a basic config and get serving up and running. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, also, I may be tossing in dual PCI 16/4 Madge/IBM Token Ring NICs to a Bay Networks 504 unit with Fiber ports and NMM just for ha-ha's and something to hobby with in the future. I also have a 3COM 12 port RJ45 Token unit, a DCA Microchannel/ISA Token card? (unable to find details on) and the old IBM 8228 MAU with a lot of 6ft Vampire to DB9's if anyone's looking for one, shipping and it's yours (I remember someone on the list was looking a few months back, but I forget who) -John Boffemmyer IV PS: "A Linux box isn't a Linux box until you get it serving to the Internet into it." - I rather like that quote, you'll never see Windoze doing that. Whoever had recently said that should suggest it to Linus T. =) ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------