🚀 go-pugleaf

Richard Watson <rwatson@pwdltd.co.uk> wrote in message
news:m2embec54n.fsf@bluesharp.pwdltd.co.uk...
>
> When has DOS/windows ever even considered using partitions to its
advantage???

It needs one partition, everything needs at least one.

> I'm sure that you must be very good at running windows if it's so easy for
you
> to get a stable setup. Maybe you have a rare gift. Out of all the people I
know
> no-one who has actually tried to do much with their windows pc has avoided
it
> hanging on them at some point. Linux has *never* hung on me.

You must be gifted too, never seen the message "kernel panic!"? Ever ran
Enlightenment and found the only way out is to allow root telnet access to
shut the bloody thing down? OK so the OS was still up at this time but it
was next to useless.

On the whole it's more robust than Windows but indestructible it aint. I've
found NT to be really not that less reliable, I've probably had more crashes
with NT than with Linux but then I've used and abused it about 1000 times
more than I have Linux.

Each has it's good points, 9x is good at games (about all it's good at) and
surfing/newsreading. NT Workstation is where the serious Windows work gets
done (mainly because it's crap for games, although Half-Life runs better on
it than it does in 9x) and it's pre-emtive multitasking and NT Terminal
Server is around should you want lots of people to use a single machine. As
an OS, linux is probably the best, just wish it had more software support, I
must say last time I ran it (RedHat 5) it was on a P75, I now have a PII 400
so hope to get it on again (before I upgraded my motherboard from LX to BX
and processor from 233 to 400, RedHat CD refused to boot, it hung after
detecting disks) now I just don't have the space ATM to install another OS.

--
------------------------------------------------------------
trevor@easynet.co.uk
http://www.trevor.easynet.co.uk