What OS to use

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From: Xylen
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00

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Okay, I know I'm starting a war here, but I would like to hear people's
opinions on my question.

I have a Packard Bell 1510, 120 MHz, 16 Mb, and 1.2 Gb Hard drive. (You
can quit laughing now. The price was right!) Currently I have about 1Gb
of programs that I want to keep, and I need about 40 Mb for cache,
leaving 160 Mb free for other stuff. At this time I can not afford more
memory or a larger hard drive.

Now my question. I am considering installing another OS and making my
machine dual-booting. I have disks for Windows NT4.0, RedHat Linux 5.0
and Caldera OpenLinux Lite 1.2. I am not afraid of a text based system,
but windows support would be nice.

Which OS would be best? Ease of installation, and fairly easy to use are
important as is network connectivity. (I am on the CSUNET, not dial-up).
As a CoSci student I feel it is necessary to learn as much as possible
about other OS and how they work, so this experiment is purely for my
educational frustration.

Comments welcome.  

Mary
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