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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (50369)	10/1/2000 7:28:50 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

Btw: I just installed Red Hat Linux 7.0. Extremely nice product. Much, much faster than Red Hat Linux 6.2 (using Gnome), and extremely much faster than Windows 2000 on the same hardware. It takes me 0.5 seconds to open a PDF document and to display the first page. Using a Pentium 400 with an old, slow harddisk. It displays the page http.//igang.dk/ faster than I can lift the mouse button during the click (fetching it from the proxy-server). Windows 2000 takes a second on the same hardware. And it runs games like Heretic, Simcity etc. without any installation trouble at all. With full 3D acceleration. My display adaptor (GeForce) and mouse (Logitech USB) worked without installing drivers. They are part of the installation and autodetected. My digital camera was also supported out of the box. I didn't have to install software for it. It just works. On Windows 2000 I had to install the software from the CD for the camera. PDF viewer, lots of card and board games, word processor and spreadsheet, visio-like diagram software, software development framework like Visual Studio, Palm sync software, PIM software, Photoshop quality image editor, ACDsee like image viewer, backup software, WinAMP in its X-Windows version, CuteFTP alike FTP software, and a lot of other utilities are preinstaled. Often in better versions than the Windows counterparts. And, finally, Red Hat built in TrueType fonts. Took some time. But now, Netscape/Linux shows pages correct. On Red Hat 6.2 you had to copy in truetype fonts yourself... Linux isn't there yet on the desktop, but since Linux software still grows exponentially (a full install is now 2GB, it was 1.3GB only a year ago), it seems that in 3 years, it will probably be 6Gigabyte free, high quality software on a DVD... When I started using Linux, my girlfriend didn't understand the user interface, so we didn't use Linux at home. With Gnome, she doesn't see any noticeable difference between Linux and Windows. With the new Linux, she prefers Linux. Because it works better, is faster, and she keeps all her settings every time I exchange the computer, reinstall or experiment with some stuff. On the Windows 2000 computer all settings are lost when I format the harddisk, which she finds really annoying.