It arrived yesterday. The installation disc that I found is labeled "12.6 live", apparently downloaded back at the end of July.
Installation went well, and after fiddling with things a bit I fired up synaptic package manager and started working on what I wanted to add to it and a few things I wanted to remove, until I got too tired to continue. Switchiing inputs on this monitor is a PITA. I've a bit more stuff to do on this workstation, and then it continues. It's going to be real nice to have more of a machine with significantly more resources... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin