Timothy Murphy wrote:
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.
Eh? I run Fedora Core 2, and it sometimes crashes.
You may prefer to call them "hangs".
Perhaps you limit "crash" to mean "kernel panic".
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.
I'll second that. My system is dual-boot WinXP and Linux.
It also helps a lot to have the latest KNOPPIX disc lying
around.
Extra boot options don't hurt, they help.
This reminds me, it's time to do another backup...
Mike
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