On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 09:55:16PM +0000, Charles Collicutt wrote: > Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? I've been
One brief answer: when was the last time your Linux crashed? Actually I can answer that: I had two crashes a couple of weeks ago, because it was 41 degrees Celcius here and my hard drives were overheating. Once I rearranged them in the case, it was good as gold. > Windows > ------- > *) Complete ease of use - a GUI even an utter luser can understand. There are some GUIs for Unix just like that. I use the CDE at work and it's pretty easy to use. > *) Piss easy installations. Assuming it finds all your hardware. > *) GAMES - is there a single good game on linux apart from ports of Quake? > *) Oh look, is that *another* cover cd with free demos and software? Guess > I won't be spending ages downloading like I would with linux then... Hmmm. Buy a better magazine, here in AU, "Australian Personal Computer" has Linux archives on their cover CDs too. Here's the stats from a remote server of mine. It doesn't do much, but it's very stable. It's only a 486-133 with 32mb RAM too. [12:38am] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> uptime 12:38am up 194 days, 5:17, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00 It was down 194 days ago to install a new modem. Before that it was up for 3 months after a crash due to hard disk failure, and was up quite a few months before that. It's located at my ISP and I can't get immediate access to it if it goes down -- but it doesn't. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org