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"Trevor Best" <trevor@easynet.co.uk> writes:

> 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.
> 

I'm not that gifted and I've only been using linux about 18 months.

I admit to a kernel panic but it was during bootup on a cold pc
with dodgy RAM, a reboot sufficed to sort it out and it only occured 
once more in a similar situation. I blamed the hardware and changed PC.

I've never run enlightenment so I can't speak for it. I run XFCE and 
I find it very stable and fast.

I've heard of people having to use the magic sysreq from time to time.
I can't remember the key presses exactly but it goes something like
<CTRL>+<ALT>+<SysRq> you hold these down and you can safely stop processes,
unmount files and reboot if necessary. 


> On the whole it's more robust than Windows but indestructible it aint. 

I agree. Maybe I've been lucky.

> 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.
> 

Maybe you should get some serius Linux abuse in :-)


> 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.
> 

Shame it refused to install. Usually there are install options you can use
to get around it. You must try the new Mandrake 7, based on RH but very
sexy :-)

I use linux for everything except games - oh and scanning at the moment
as no-one's made a driver for my [1] scanner. I suppose I could try accessing
it using wine or vmware but I don't mine booting windows for that.

[1] It's a parallel port scanner anyway and I hate the way that things
freeze while you're using it. SCSI is a much better interface for this
so maybe I'll upgrade in the near future.

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