Win9x/WinNT/Win2k maybe stable strate after installing but try adding some buggy 3'rd party drivers (SIS comes to mind) and watch your system BSOD. Windows is stable if you feed it the right hardware and the best of breed Drivers. And maybe a genourous helping of CPU and RAM and Harddrive Space. ONLY then can it start taking some load... Take "www.microsoft.com" for example it is driven by no less that 12 Compac machines. Linux is a lot less hungry for hardware. A standard Pentium running Linux (apache) CAN serve better than the eqiv NT machine (IIS). Linux will also suffer from a lot less costly downtime than the NT machine. ftp.cdrom.com it is run on a single machine. (Running netbsd OS, but close enough) WinNT 4 has on MAJOR design problem. The video drivers sit inside Kernel space (To speedup Windows.) So if you have a buggy drivers then BSOD and down goes the whole system. Linux's video drivers and X's do not run on the same level as the Kernel and if they are buggy they do not bring the whole system down. --------------- Side note. MS Proxy 2 SP1 vs Squid 2.2 (Linux.) Squid beats hands down at the amount of data it caches and the excellent QOS. "Proxy Report" errors become a thing of the past. Oh and try get MS Proxy authenticate passwords against a Novel database, block all Ads and filter out porn, Not very likely. Simple with Squid. Just a simple change in the squid Config file. -------------- Grant Slater ----------------- Linux yesterday, Linux today and Linux tomorrow
