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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (53363)	3/24/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583526

Jim, Re: I was going to try Linux, maybe even NT (Microsoft). Are they more stable The immediate problem about Linux is, where do you get a copy of Office to run on it? NT is much better comparing with 95/98(assume you don't need power management, PCMCIA, USB). I used it on desktop and use 98 on notebooks. Gary

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (53363)	3/24/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1583526

<maybe even NT > I use NT and at work we have all NT users for stability. It is definitely more stable than 98. I have not rebooted my machine for six months at a stretch. I use 95 on my laptops, since it came with it and NT does not yet support PCMCIA well. This is supposed to change for Windows 2000 Pro (NT 5.0) but this will not be out until October or November. I use Linux on a server for home use. It is very stable but does not run with applications like office easily. It is a good server. It just works, but it is Unix text mode stuff to administrate sometimes even though it was claimed that everything could be done with a web browser.