On Wednesday 20 March 2002 10:39, you wrote:
> Kmail and evolution are very good email agents , but for me when I use
> outlook it doesn't hang with 10000
> mail....
> big problem of windows are stability and viruses ...
> big problem of linux have no good acceleration for video and is not yet
> stable,
> I think also that for laptop is very not at the level of windows since
> suspend , irda , incorporated mouse
> does not work well to not say at all...
> (Warning:I like a lot linux , and I saying this only for pointing on
> problems that I do not like to see in the future)
> Thanks for the very great disribution you've made ,
> Meir Faraj
> ----- Original Message -----
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I'd have to agree that laptop support is lacking yet in several areas, but 3d
acceleration depends a lot on what card you have, and whether the
manufacturer is willing to write drivers for Linux. My NVidia GeForce2 Ultra
works great, I can watch dvds in Linux, and many apps, including OpenGL, run
much smoother than win2k.
Personally, even when I use win2k, I don't use outlook because of the huge
security issues. And I stay behind a hardware firewall to keep the hackers
out. Not that win2k is used much by me anymore, since I can now play many of
my games in Linux with winex(thanks to transgaming). And as far as stability
goes, I have had no problem running RC1 on my work system, running several
days straight without a reboot is not a problem. No such luck with win2k,
something eventually bogs it down and forces me to reboot.
All in all, I can't wait for Linux to get a stronger hold on the desktop
market. For my purposes, it's already there.
