On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 02:36, Jack Bowling wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:12:15PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > McKeever Chris wrote: > > > > > I know this topic has come up before, especially when FEDORA was first > > > introduced, but now after months of implementing, tweaking and CORE2, how > > > secure and stable is FEDORA?? > > > > I find the use of the term "stable" today rather odd. > > All distributions of Linux are completely stable, in my experience, > > as is Windows-2000 and Windows-XP. Getting very OT here, but can't resist. Have experienced some serious stability problems with Linux SMP machines recently due to low-latency patch problems, then of course there are the NVidia problems - yes closed source, but if you want the performance... I can hardly be accused of being a Bill Gates fan (have been running Linux since 0.98-pl12 or so, and Coherent before that, used Sun workstations in the Motorola 68k days, and have lately managed to pretty much eliminate M$ OSs from both home and work machines thanks to OOo and Wine); however, XP is better than W2K which was FAR better than W98 (Me was an abomination), etc. > Oh, please. I can bring XP to its knees just by opening JPGs for 30 > minutes. Its VM sucks rocks. Linux is light years beyond anything MS has > available. It's my preferred OS, and has developed amazingly, but some users, particularly non-technical desk-top types are still better off on Windoze (or Mac - at least OS X is Unix-based) for now. Changing fast, so hopefully this will no longer be true in the not-so-distant future. Just my $0.02. ;^) Phil
