Thank you Altoid for your encouraging reply.

I learned from you that sourceforge has a discussion area which did help me. Although it helped me to decide against using Simplicity Linux (which is just as well) due to the discussions that were posted (not that they were bad or rude). It does seem like an abandoned project.

I was already thinking it was but my logic was that I would have been putting it on an ancient laptop and it'll stay there permanently with no further upgrades.

Still you were very helpful and i sincerely appreciate that.

Thank you dice for you suggestion, as it turns out, I'll just stay with Star and -- like I mentioned above keep it at 2.1 (kirk) without ever upgrading. What your post inspired me to do is just continue improving it and be satisfied with its little quirks.

I have to conclude that every thing I put on this old laptop is going to have something or another that isn't exactly perfect and I'll just learn to be content with it.

Both of you were most helpful, thank you!