On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Considering what I hear from this group and the 'debates' in c.o.l.a., > and elsewhere on the Net, WinNT isn't that stable as it is now. If they > really are going to break compatibility with their predecessor OSs then > that will change things, but I'm astonished that they would actually do > that. After all, the whole world didn't rush out and upgrade from Win95 > to Win98, and this upgrade was supposed to be compatible. A lot of > people have decided Win95 is enough. If they leave compatibility out, > M$ runs a risk of having Win2k not being a big seller. Its the > compatibility issue that has allowed them to drag everybody along the > upgrade path, a real money maker, all this time.
Windows NT 4 is reasonably stable in that the whole operating system rarely crashes; it's still more often than Linux, but a lot less often than 95. The GUI still crashes on occasion. To me, the main reason for not upgrading to 98 is that there aren't any new features which I want. You can get the new desktop by putting IE 4 on 95 (and I don't want it anyway). I don't use USB and you can get that on 95 anyway (my notebook has it). So there's no reason to upgrade, since I rarely use 95 anyway. NT could do with some upgrades, though -- it needs to become more mainstream to get better driver support. It needs DirectX 5 or better (then I'd never need to use 95 at all on my desktop). > Finally, one the important things about Linux is its configurability, > especially being able to trim the kernel to just what is needed. The > idea that they can build an OS that is not only good at being a > mainstream desktop OS while at the same time as being a strong > enterprise server, all from the same shrink-wrapped box, smells real > funny to me. Isn't that what we do too? And RedHat? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
