At 10:59 26/09/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > Is Windows XP a *real* operating system yet, or is it another GUI shell
> > running on top of MS-DOS v X.x???
>XP got rave reviews in both the WSJ and the NYTimes. They claimed it was
>very stable, ran for weeks without rebooting, etc.
*** Depends what they're used to. Weeks!? Pfff...! Today I got a mail from
root telling me /var/log was starting to fill up. It recalled me I had 2
servers running in the cupboard... The last (re)boot was when we moved in
here end of February.
>It IS a resource hog.
*** I don't know what makes the WSJ & NYT reviewers tick but anything that
needs at least a PIII 800 and 256Mb just to make a PC work isn't worth even
looking at. More than a gig just for the OS!? Come on!
Zoran.
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