[hamei]

Let’s make this easy, why would we recommend older OSes that are less used or known by our members to a novice, new, user?

Because they work better. And there is no difference at all in basic advice from 5.whatever to 6.5.30.  The main reason to run 6.5 on an older box was nekoware, which is no longer around.

All the relevant information is at techpubs, as I have mentioned three times now. Real information, from the pens of the people who made this stuff. Those docs are well-written and illustrated and accurate. It's the place to go when you have a question, really ...

In this particular case 6.3 was a snack to install, which is worth a heck of a lot right there. Pop the CD in the drive, hit install, and away you go. It's almost like Windows 2000.

After which, it performs better and you can't even tell it's 6.3 either visually or by operational differences. It acts the same. No way in today's environment would I run 6.5 on an O2.

No way would I run an O2 tho, so there is that :-)