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To: Matt who wrote (8724)	2/25/2000 2:54:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	of 9798

Well I am what you would call in many circumstances and early adopter. But I'm also a slow adopter. So although my post may have seemed painful, most of the pain was due to the libc vs glibc schism and I had delayed updating my working machine until I had time to test the latest Linux. Linux code does not fork like MS (window 31, win95, nt 3.51, nt 4.0, win 98, win 2000) but schism as I call them arise. If you buy the current release of all the commercial software then their is no problem. But in my case my acceleratedX was busted in the first 6.0 glibc distributions. The later 6.1 fixed the problem. The fact I learned is that there is a problem with java and the jre. As the jre evolves the java written for it may not be very backwards compatible. That is to say that jre may go through code forking like changes. So one must update apps as the jre updates. Again with linux anyone with source can recompile an app and have it run on the latest with a high level of success. Back in msft space where all is binaries, all is buy the next revision and or abandon an application. Now as to win 2000. One report It runs as slow as sewer sludge on a frosty morn. MY PERSONAL FAVORITE. anchordesk.co.uk has some good articles I can't find the one that reported that ms y2kbug ran at 75% of win ntbug 4.0 But alas I got win98 up and running in a wmware virtual machine on my new p3-650e box. It functions as another computer/host on my lan and I can browse the internet with ie inside of win98 inside of wmware inside of fvwm inside of AccelerateX inside of Linux. It took 6 hours wall clock time most of which was waiting for win98 reboots. But this is tom's multidisplay multidesk lean mean linux machine and I had another 19 desks still functioning and kept busy doing other stuff. My first impressions are that win98 running like this is as fast os my win98 200 ppro which is like a 400 PII. I estimate that this is 1% of the pain of win y2k bug. Tom Watson tosiwmee

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