This has been a quite amusing discussion. My experience: XP crashes very rarely, unless you f**k it up yourself. At home I have 4 XP boxes, running basically 24/7/52. I also have 3 linux-boxes running FC5, one of which I cant get running (running XP is ok though). The only time the XP-boxes are rebooted is at some major HW change or update, you have to do that on Linux as well. I have experienced BSOD a couple of times, when some HW failed, never any other time, that happens with linux as well. The rumour that XP is unreliable etc, is just a rumour. I have never been infected with a viruus on my XP-boxes, however I have been rooted once on my FC-boxes. Obviously it was my own fault, forgot about an old phpBB installation on a public webserver. The so-called problem with Windows is, I think, that there are so much crap software out there, that people install without any thoughts at all, plus the fact that people use quite a lot of cracked sw, with no clue what's in it. Regarding FC5, I have been trying for quite a long time to get a lap-top with a WiFi card to work, with no success what so ever, despite that the maker of the WiFi card has made a prototype driver avaible for the linux people. Until that time that Linux installs as effortless as Windows, without any tweaking, linux will be a nerd-os and nothing else. I use XP because it gets the work done, with a minimum of work, I dont want to spend days trying to figure out on how to read from a CD or weeks to figure out why my network-card does not work. I appreciate that it is free, and can accept that, due to the fact that it is free, I have do some work to get it running. But, I rather pay $200 or whatever it is for Win XP and be able to work from day one, call the support if it doesn't work. And my experience, well, started of with MS Xenix, later SCO Xenix once up on a time, since then it has been Windows for workstations and RH/FC on servers. With best regards Tomas Larsson Sweden http://www.tlec.se http://www.ebaman.com Excellent and cheap hosting, use http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust23962 Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
