When you insert your USB key into your computer and power it on, this is the screen that should appear.

At the moment we're supporting four boot options combining two screen resolutions with either LAN or dialup access.

Next is the boot screen, we're currently using the bootsplash loader, although this will go to "gensplash" in the next version. If you need more detail or things don't go according to plan, you can press F2 at any time for more detail.

If all goes well, the next thing you'll see will be the login screen.

If you're feeling brave and you do press F2, this is the sort of thing you're likely to see going on behind the scenes ...

At the moment we're using GDM with the Hanzley theme and the Blue Glass animated cursors, which looks pretty cool if you're used to the old xdm login screen. Note that from here you have a number of options.  You can obviously log in which would probably be your normal course of action. Right clicking on the system icon will allow you to shutdown the system, reboot the system, "run the XDMCP chooser" (start a thin client connection) , or configure the display manager.

If you log in as root, this is your initial desktop.

Fairly bland, but you'll be wanting to create a user account (!) and set up the desktop to suit yourself.

The root user getting busy.

Shows the system monitor (right) , tcpdump (bottom) and the system menus/

The Gnome file manager (nautilus) in action. As it happens, browsing some of these screen shots ..

Here's Firefox showing it's default home page.

Setting up the Gaim instant messenger to talk to "FlashLinux support" at Linux.co.uk

Lots of options in Gaim, you'll need gaim-encryption if you want to use M$ Messenger accounts, and don't forget to tick the System Tray Icon box to make gaim persistent

Here's something you don't see every day - Gnome's HAL hardware detection system.

.. Pre-configured and full working !

XChat 2 provides excellent IRC chat group facilities.

The new applet browser in Gnome 2.8 is excellent, right button on a panel and click "Add to panel", and you get this !

Open Office calc - we're using the Ximian (now Novell) port.

Open Office writer - the Gnome icone and toolset are so much nicer that the QT stuff ..

RDesktop in action. This is a fantastic package and is configured to support both RDP and VNC.

Excellent for use in a thin client environment.

This is an example of the use of RDesktop / VNC to connect to a local X server as a thin client.