The Slow-laris came from solaris-2.1 which was indeed a dog, but OpenSolaris and Solaris-10 runs just fine on a SunBlade-100 with a GB of memory. I certainly wouldn't be using it to run WRF or HYSPLIT4, but for everyday work it just fine. It is also stable, which cann't be said for any of the BSD's or Linux Cheers RWP