Typos? I used to minimise those with a little help from Firefox. Doesn't seem to work any more (OK, I've not researched it yet) and the board spell-checker is extraordinarily slow.

It does compensate for this with some quite hilarious suggestions. Of course, I can remember none of these off-hand - but worth a look when one is seriously bored. (Have a look at what it makes of "eBay," for instance - unless that's been fixed.)

A blog sounds interesting. On the other hand, I'm quite unashamedly doing my darndest to keep this thread alive for occasions when folk have real Linux problems/interesting information to share, as I reckon it has much to offer, and needs all the help it can get to remain visible among all the odd things that are cropping up on the board at the moment. (Feedback. Postage. Payment. Board settings. Responsibility for item delivery/return. And so on. And so on. And so on.)

The rolling release aspect of Mint-Debian was definitely part of the appeal - although it looks pretty stable already, this will improve with time. PCLinuxOS does something similar, if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks for the suggestion about Mint10 - betas are generally beyond me, but the beauty of a virtual machine is that this doesn't really matter much. I'll definitely have a look at that.

If I find a solution to the 800x600 resolution limit of most Linux distros on VBox, I'll post back. I'm sure the answer's out there somewhere - hopefully I'll google to better effect this evening.

And I'm still interested in giving Haiku a whirl - at least it's open-source!

(Just tried the spell checker - among its suggestions: eBay/embay; Debian/deviant, Dobbin and Debbie; PCLinuxOS/ Climaxes, Colin and Clonuses; distros/bistros.)