Hello everyone, I have been using an IBM Thinkpad, and continue to do so for this message, with Ubuntu, currently upgraded to 8.04. There are aheap of updates not applied as there is a hiccup with an earlier kernel marked for uninstall, that fails as the relevant modules package is already gone, and not retrievable. Since the processor is a PentiumIII at 700Mhz, it is time to move on, and I am doing so, and may consider reworking this Thinkpad for a lighter distro and playing around. I have chosen to install Debian (6.0) on the fresh desktop PC, and on a later Acer laptop. I invoked the Evolution backup on this laptop, then restored on the desktop, never having set up Evolution prior. It now will not recognise the analog modem ppp connection. I expect to have to edit config files and get ppp to set up as the default routing, but also in backing up and restoring Evolution, there are some settings that came over and are inappropriate, not least the old hostname. I would appreciate comments and suggestions from others who have made such a transition as that. I am expecting that the networking was also where the fault lies with updating Synaptic. I tried to use Google+, only to be told that the default Iceweasle was not recent enough. I could have taken the link on the webpage for Firefox, but I would prefer to have everything logged through apt/synaptic rather than trying to hand install and then maintain and keep up to date. That is a big part of why I have chosen Debian, and the administrative tools associated with Debian. At the moment, major updating will be done by taking the complete box and peripherals with me to visit a friend with ADSL that I can "borrow", but smaller matters can come in via analog modem now that it will dial out and run ppp. Having the necessary .debs on a disk or USB stick is also very useful. Mark Trickett