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

To: Dave who wrote (63226)	11/21/2001 6:28:53 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I don't understand your point. You tell how good the Playstation 1 system is, how bugfree it works, and then you still argue that this is not how you want desktop software to be, even though you want the desktop to be stable? Your posts seems to contradict itself. Remember that an OS itself is only a small part of what is contained in "Red Hat Linux 7.2" or "Microsoft Windows XP". What counts is the amount of work required to install all the necessary software and how the result of that is. Future Linux distributions will contain much more software than most users need, and it will all install from the same set of CDs/DVDs, having a commercially constructed set of software that fits together, specially built for your platform. Most Windows installations, however, are installed from many different installation sources, which often leads to trouble - just like the Outlook 97 vs. Windows 2000 incompatibility, I posted earlier. If Outlook would be part of Windows 2000, the problem simply wouldn't have been there. Linux distributions are very like the Playstation 1 model, and some even provide a CD-only Linux distro, that doesn't require a harddisk, like this one from SuSE: suse.com I'm not sure how the Sony Linux works on Playstation 2, but I guess you put in the DVD and turn on the computer, and that's it. Lars.