Just looked at their site: What are the minimum system requirements? * Intel-compatible CPU (i486 or later), * 16 MB of RAM for text mode, at least 96 MB for graphics mode with KDE (at least 128 MB of RAM is recommended to use the various office products), * bootable CD-ROM drive, or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI), * standard SVGA-compatible graphics card, * serial or PS/2 standard mouse or IMPS/2-compatible USB-mouse. so 16M RAM is ok for test mode, which is quite sufficient for fixit work. The site also shows: What software is installed on the KNOPPIX-CD? The following Highlights are available in version 3.1 of this Debian-based (www.debian.org <http://www.debian.org/>) CD: * Linux-Kernel 2.4.x <http://www.kernel.org/> * KDE V3.0 <http://www.kde.org/> as the standard desktop with K Office and the Konqueror WWW-browser /konqueror <http://www.konqueror.org/>/ * X Multimedia System <http://www.xmms.org/> (/xmms/) an MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg Vorbis Audio <http://vorbis.com/> player and xine * Internet connection software /kppp/,/pppoeconf (DSL)/ and /isdn-config/ * Gnu Image Manipulation Program (/GIMP <http://www.gimp.org/>/) Version 1.2 * utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems * network and security analysis tools for network administrators * OpenOffice^(TM) <http://www.openoffice.org/>, the GPL-developed version of the well-known StarOffice^(TM) office suite * many programming languages, development tools (including kdevelop <http://www.kdevelop.org/>) and libraries for developers * in total more than 900 installed software packages with over 2000 executable user programs, utilities, and games -- Brian -- This is the Computer Software Distribution Network - SA mailing list. To unsubscribe send an e-mail to 'csdn-sa-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' with a subject of 'unsubscribe'.