So??? do you know how many drivers were missing from windows 2000 and ME ??? I still have cards and stuff that don't have 2000 drivers here.... what is your point (Also, windows 2000 needed a 300mhz cpu to run half decent.. and XP neeeds more and at least 128mb ram as a bare minimium...??? (as opposed to mandrake linux, which will run on a penntium 100 with 32 mb of ram...(albiet slowly) The simple fact of the matter is that many people ARE using linux to replace windows.... the "easy" side of things is most likely app software,, not the OS itself,, windows can't take credit for the majority of their software either... rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Manuel Drake Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 5:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Nimda virus > BTW, I did write to the author suggesting he may want to tell his > readers that an alternative to Windows exists (Linux). He wrote back to > say such an article is already in the works and may be out early next > week. I'd love to agree with this assessment, but as I'm not exactly a moron, and am *still* stuck in the mud getting my Mandrake 8.0 distribution to do all that windows did for me (effortlessly). Please understand, I'd *really* love to agree with this, but unfortunately, even mandrake is not all that error free, ie, still not an alternative to windows. My latest lunacy, installed Mandrake 8 on a brandy new 1.2G Tbird system for my neighbor, and though networking went ok, and I got X running passably, come to find out that esd won't support his on-board audio, so it's either another card, or back to RH7.1 which *did* for some reason support his audio. One of these days though... For now, it would suffice to say that all the winservers should just give up and shut down for linux replacement... and take our pain away as well as their own.
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