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fatman wrote:
> Hey this sys is up to date,5-180 gig hds,386mgs ram,128mg video,Amd
> 1700xp soundblaster live,ethernet card,56k zoom modem top of the line
> stuff,but xp with all it patches security updts screw up the
> works,this sys is connected to three gateway sys running 800mhz
> 2-40gig hds,I run an apache server from here when I can get it to work
> with xp,there is nothing in xp that has not been stolen from other
> programs,like go back,file mover,win explorere doesn't do the job,you
> should try power desk,sys suite for virus protection,not norton,these
> programs are far superior than anything in xp......As far as finding
> the unistall in the control panel it's not there.I have not seen
> windows load on any sys without it screwing up something it's not
> consistent on any machine I've seen.The word is Operating system,it
> should do anything I TELL IT TO DO not the other way around,I'm
> seriously looking at linx.
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:01:11 GMT, fatman <fatlilbk@peoplepc.com>
> wrote:
Any version of UNIX it always reminds me of a soaped up version of CP/M. I'm
not talking about the pretty face that people put on it in the hope of
making it easy to use but the actual OS.
But it was designed to give people the power to do what they wanted to with
a machine.
It has a steep learning curve and while the typical UNIX guru will argue all
day about why his *command line driven* program is better than your *command
line driven* program he will have little time to help you and if you mention
GUI, will probably stop talking to you.
If you've written assembly language programs to make your printer work, are
fairly competent in C and have written some complex DOS based batch files,
then you have some idea of what you face in Linux.
My system is essentially the same as yours (although it only has 384 Mb of
RAM) and I do not consider it up to date. However it has only frozen once
since I've had it and the BSOD has only shown up when first installing odd
ball no name hardware.