My thanks as well. I'd been afraid, but also curious, about Linux for a while. The sheer awfulness of Windows8 made me finally decide that i've had enough of the MS OS. I was raised around computers, but was a complete Linux noob. So when an old(er) laptop fell into my hands, i figured now was the t...

I've been tweeting my experience with Puppy on an old Pentium-M laptop (Toshiba Tecra l2) as a complete linux-noob. Tried Lubuntu; didn't work. Tried Bodhi; worked, but way too sloooooow. Tried Puppy; worked great, quick & snappy. I'm getting a 20-60gig hard drive for the Tecra & making it a...