". Plus, 98 has no security" yes, i don't boot into the win98 platform at all. i seriously don't like xp, my girls have it on their machine and i'm not impressed, caused me endless headaches trying to maintain it. i think my problem was having win on a too small partition for what i was doing, ie rendering willy-nilly and not tidying up :) not sure why you think tarballs suck and how that is relevant to linux ?