Great set MrB. As a Berko born man, I always take a walk along the cut when I go back home.

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I received the K10D today in excellent condition. Thank you very much, John. Thank you also for two spare batteries. Today is better than Christmas!

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Hi, is your K10D still available?

davidwozhere, on the *ist D it is Frame Number that tells the shutter count in the EXIF.

As you say geordie01, Mint does seem to have better hardware recognition than many other distros. As far as boot time is concerned, the system will boot much quicker once installed on the hard drive, no more than 50 seconds on my 3 year old PC.

Linux mint is a good place to start, also Zorin is a distro which aims to make itself attractive to Windows migrants. I personally think that Debian and Ubuntu based distros are more suited to first time users. You can always run a distro as a live system before installing to see if you like the distro and also to see if the desktop environment suits you. It is also worth looking at reviews first to find out how easy the distro is to install, the ones I have suggested are quite straight forward, others will want you to partition the hard drive manually which can be daunting for a first timer. Distrowatch is a good place to find all the operating systems you could ever need.

Good luck,

Lee

Home of the World Cup winners. Great stuff!