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People have made mention of ubuntu in this thread. My boss tried it out  and 
like it a lot so he created a bootable cd for me and I tried it out on a  
computer I built from leftover parts. I used a crappy PC chips system board with  
onboard video and sound and put a 3com etherlink III NIC in the only  slot and 
added a PII 400 and 512M RAM. I booted up the CD and it set up the  blank 
hard drive and everything else with little intervention. It picked up the  video 
card and the NIC and connected to my broadband connection. After a few  
hardware problems, it's up and running with mozilla. There's a package manager  
which can be used to bring down all the updates for installation. I expected to  
have to do some user configuration but it was essentially hands off! Runs 
pretty  good and still plenty of space left on the hard drive. The sound does not 
work,  but I expected that since I don't know what sound chipset the system 
board has. 
anyone curious about linux should check it out. also  www.ubuntuforums.org