just had to put out there - i love it! i've been a ubuntu user for the past 12 years, recently went to debian - but. i have a 10 year old net book i just love for travel, but it can't handle debian. sparky just flies :) and there's a newer, but cripplingly slow laptop - also useless until Sparky. i like it for writing, nice keyboard. i did switch to the gnome3 desktop, easier for my old fat fingers. i did try Puppy Linux, but couldn't get encrypted email to work - Claws. works right out of the box on Sparky. the two slow laptops stay with openbox. if i got the right name, the default anyway. so... thank you!