XP is garbage

My experience too. 98SE is much better than the original - and the Windows updates seem to work.

The change in the GUI in XP does my head in from time to time. Everything moved or got called new names. And DOS - W16 apps may not run.

Why don't you use a RAID controller and mirror the drives in real time ?

No bugs in DOS AFAIK !

Graham

Hello JB,

Oh yes, it is an issue.

But I do crash 2000 once in a while, requiring a hard boot. XP behaves much worse. The only rock-stable OSes I know are DOS and QNX.

Regards, Joerg

Hello JB,

Semiconductor manufacturers are often blissfully unaware of the design-ins they are losing because of it.

Regards, Joerg

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I had a XP machine at work for a while. When a 2GHz machine can't keep up with my typing something is very wrong.

Now I have a multiboot system. It runs SuSE and/or Win98. I use the SuSE to make a backup image of the windows side so I can just plunk it back in when the Win98 mungs its files.

No, its reboot, reinstall, reboot.

BTW: I have found that well written windows apps run just fine under "wine". Unfortunately only about 1% or less of windows apps are well written.

The "dosemu" allows all my dos stuff to run, including things that use the serial and parallel ports. In graphics mode, the DOS screen can be resized under "dosemu" but not windows. Go figure.

Have you ever seen 32 bit DOS in operation ?

Was stunningly / blindingly fast. Microsoft clearly wanted to kill that one very quickly. You could do *real* pro non-linear video editing on a 486 !

Graham

Yeah. It's FreeBSD-based, but Apple could have made it where it just pops up an error message. They didn't.

You just haven't looked in the right place. There is a Linux distribution that never customizes apps - they are exactly as they would be if you got them from the author and did a default install.

See [

I know the feeling; back then Slackware needed a lot or twaeking. The latest version installs and runs with a minimum of tinkering.

Alas, you are right. I still keep a Windows 200 box on my local network to run IE and PowerBASIC. :(

Microsoft paid Lindows $20 million to change the name to Linspire. [

Linspire PCs are flying off the shelfs at Wal-Mart. Here is one for 348.00: [

Here is one using Xandros for $200: [

Also see [

Yup. Microsoft sued, got stomped on by the courts, and settled with an agreement to pay Lindows $20 million to become Linspire.

You have to decide whether you want something that runs like Windows or doesn't run like Windows. If it's like Windows, it's insecure. If it's secure the user has to do some things in a non-windows fashion, such as not running as root/administrator.

That has been my experience as well. Those are the ones I reach for when designing critical systems.

Not until Linux has a true Microkernel. No monolithic kernal can possibly be as robust and reliable as a microkernel is.

Have you looked at eCS? It certainly has the ease of use and the reliability. It's still a bit of a pain finding certain classes of accessories but it is getting better.

Ted

OS/2 is still alive and well in its new incarnation as eCS. That's what I run. I still have W2K on this machine but it is only used for a couple of apps and I expect them to go away soon.

Ted

Mandriva distros

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that one

Interesting. Is it available on the net anywhere?

NT

LTSpice qualifies. Works great, except for one minor problem. When I try to print, circles don't make it through the PS interpreter. But the application is actually quite stable.

Good day!

Yeah.

And when someone with 9 years of Linux experience, not just occasionally tinkering but *using* it every day for almost all my PC desktop computing goes and posts something negative, they call me a troll.

Pathetic.

One thing I do love about Linux is the low-level CD-R(W)/DVD+-R(W/RAM) tools. You can approach them with GUI interfaces, or at the command line. Thus, one can create very simple scripts to do all the stuff John wants to do.

The best thing is that with such low-level access, you can perform verifications and diffs to ensure data integrity, in exactly the way you want. The GUI tools might offer options on this, but you never really know what they did.

I trust my backups only to well verified scripted burning operations.

Good day!

Interesting. I am about convinced that when I have time to move away from this quirky mess of Suse 9.1, I will go back to Slack.

How's the ease of use of hotplug with USB flash drives on Slack? Do you have the most recent 10.1? I downloaded it and haven't used it yet. What a waste of bandwidth, huh?

And I'm not talking about superfluous sites, but rather financial, etc.

Good day!