> If you are talking about Microsoft Windows 95 i can only say that i
> installed it in September 95 and had to do one reinstall because i was
> using a broken Bus master driver.
You're fortunate. On my HP 75 I had to completely reinstall Win95 at
least once a month. Near the end, before I buried the install CD in the
back yard, even on reinstall it wouldn't recognize my cdrom. On my HP 66
it was more stable, but still required one or two reboots a day. I
haven't had a problem with Linux in this respect.
> I don't call W95 "da bomb" of OS, but i really wonder very hard why my
> copy is working so well and all the others don't.
The problems with Windows in general goes beyond the need for constant
reboots and reinstalls. You're pretty much limited in options to what the
programmers decide to allow you to do, and in how they allow you to do it.
For the computer illiterate or novice this can be handy, as Win.. comes
with training wheels. But if you need some flexibility and the ability to
design your own system Linux is much more versatile.
> >2 - To upgrade the kernel
>
> Never did that, I'm a bit afraid of that after I tried to get soundcard
> support into a SuSE 6.0 and therefore had to recompile the kernel (great,
> isn't it ?). As a bloody newbie that is not really what one should start
> with. I'm keen on one of these 2.2 kernels, but right now there are new
> patch levels every week and i go fine with my 2.0.36.
Agreed. I'm a newbie also. Getting the system set up and configured was
a nightmare, but as is right now it's light years ahead of what I could do
with Windows.
> that on Linux and i'm sick of missing dependencies or 75 MB downloads that
> then are an "unknown tar-archive" or request a file that is available under
> a slightly different name.
I've had the same problem. One of the drawbacks to using free software on
a free system. This is not a complaint, mind you. I can buy the software
I need to use on the other op system, but I'd rather be here using free
software that sometimes doesn't work.
> Recently i have the problem from time to time that keyboard and mouse
> crash under X, looks like the whole system halts for some reason.
:) I have this happen in X a couple of times a day. Consequently I try
to stick to console as much as possible. I have the biggest problem with
Netscape, which constantly freezes X. I've also noticed that the system
doesn't like it much when I change terminals into and out of X.
> Rather than spending 1.5 minutes
> >finding out how to make a process re-read it's configuration they will
> >spend 3 minutes re-booting.
Just enough time to take a wiz!
Glen
Glen Lee Edwards
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"Linux, giving you the freedom to make the choice."
