* Peter Davis (03-04-01 17:46 +0100) >>> XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. >> >> Hardly. >> >> NT 4 and 2000 have always been perfectly stable and reliable for me, >> running for days and weeks on end without trouble. They have additional >> (subjective) benefit of not having garish, cartoonish GUIs, though 2K >> shows some tendencies. Fortunately, most of the silly stuff can be turned >> off. > > NT4, 2000 and XP are all moderately stable, but none of them is what I > would call "rock solid".
Me, too. I'd only call XP "rock solid". > I've only had XP for less than a month, but I've hung the OS several times, > and hung Explorer, which is really interesting. I've been using XP since September 2001. I'm not using Explorer[1], just SpeedCommander. If the Explorer hangs, I kill it and restart it via Task Manager - doesn't hurt the OS. > It's certainly possible to do this with NT and 2K also. Easily. Okay, let's kill this thread. It's becomming quite offtopic... Thorsten [1] Okay it's the shell, but not for specific things -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
