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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cfimx who wrote (28454)	3/2/2000 2:00:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Or is it just that you're dreaming? <g>

To: cfimx who wrote (28454)	3/2/2000 2:05:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

...That is, it is a DREAM. I wouldn't say every review. I've seen a couple of lukewarm ones. As a daily NT user for many years, I can tell you that, at least for the desktop version, it's a nice improvement over NT4, as one would expect from an incremental release, and nothing more. Now if you're moving to W2K from POS Win98, it might look dreamlike just because it's not a toy. But that's old news to Unix people. There's one thing about Win2k that is a major disappointment to me: they still haven't fixed their most ridiculous dis-feature, the need to reboot when you install an app. How the can they bill an OS that makes you reboot when you install an app as a major server OS? This is beyond me. Maybe it can't be fixed without breaking apps. Too bad. I'll admit, as a Unix lifer I don't understand the DLL structure of Win32 apps. Where I come from, you have reference counts and when a reference count goes to zero you can get rid of something, no reboot required. Maybe Rudedog or somebody familiar with the problem can say a brief word about it. I can see the replacement of a DLL making you perhaps restart some daemon programs, but I can't see it forcing a reboot. --QS