Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 06, 2004 04:32 AM
I, too, leave my Win2k boxes on all the time. For the most part my file server win2k box is only powered down during power failures and I'll have to reboot my workstation about once or twice a month. Of course, I don't run Outlook (or OE) and I don't run Internet Explorer either.
However, to say that winXp is easy-to-install? Have you ever installed XP? Have you ever installed XP on a diskless machine with a SCSI card? I can't belive how much crap the Win2k and WinXP install is, even compared to Win98.
Just this week, I installed Lycoris, Xandros and SUSE 9.1 on a PIII 500. All three were incredibly easy to get installed and the Lycoris desktop ran amazingly well on 128 megs of Ram. My only complaint is that the install takes a really long time (heh, Lycoris lets you play klondike while loading the machine). After install, however, it's pretty quick. Updates are far faster than Window's Update. Overall, I'm very impressed with the experience these distros provided.
Just for the record, I stuck with SUSE. It's a bit more sluggish than Lycoris, but I liked YAST.
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Re:Linux Desktop
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 06, 2004 04:32 AMHowever, to say that winXp is easy-to-install? Have you ever installed XP? Have you ever installed XP on a diskless machine with a SCSI card? I can't belive how much crap the Win2k and WinXP install is, even compared to Win98.
Just this week, I installed Lycoris, Xandros and SUSE 9.1 on a PIII 500. All three were incredibly easy to get installed and the Lycoris desktop ran amazingly well on 128 megs of Ram. My only complaint is that the install takes a really long time (heh, Lycoris lets you play klondike while loading the machine). After install, however, it's pretty quick. Updates are far faster than Window's Update. Overall, I'm very impressed with the experience these distros provided.
Just for the record, I stuck with SUSE. It's a bit more sluggish than Lycoris, but I liked YAST.
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