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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (20708)	4/21/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

As much as it pains me to say this, I think that as an end user it is better to stay mainstream. Of course this is the very force that has consolidated MSFT's position as a monopoly, but regardless of your opinion of their business practices, the WIN 98 / WIN 2000 migration is the direction the herd is moving. It's the little things that bother me, like needing different drivers, etc. Or having applications or games not quite work. Have I tried Linux? No. I understand it is more stable but I am not mission critical here. (I understand WIN 2000 is as well.) I would be much more comfortable with considering it in dedicated situations before the more mixed requirement of a home computer though. Maybe some of these other guys here have used it.

To: Scrapps who wrote (20708)	4/22/2000 9:42:00 AM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

<<Have you ever tried Linux? >> yeah, the kid has ran that. Redhat 6.xx I believe. Like having install/setup headaches? You will love Linux. Of course you did say it will come with Linux but at some point in the future you may have to install it again. You have to understand the command's in Linux, the root commands like the old DOS days, probably no way around that. Then software support is a whole other issue. But it is one fast stable OS for sure. It blows away Windoze. Like comparing a Ferrari to a Camry. You can run Linux on a PII 300 and never think about needing a faster processor, no bloated overhead to the OS! But what about your app's?