Paul F. Johnson wrote: > XP and stable are another pair I rarely see > > XP and reliable - not usually What exactly does "stable" mean? In my experience _all_ operating systems nowadays are completely stable, in the sense that they never crash. I don't recall Fedora or Windows XP crashing at all in my case for at least a year. (Individual programs die on both systems - eg KNode quite often bombs out - maybe once a week - but it does this very nicely, and doesn't cause any problems.) The main problem I have with Windows XP is viruses. I don't really have any major problems with Fedora, except that my grand-daughter cannot run Sims-2 under it. I think the advice often given by Linux fanatics to dump Windows is very foolish. A dual boot system is sometimes a life-saver, eg in determining if a problem is in software or hardware. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
