RE: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame..

[Andrew Ban <aban@voicenet.com>]

DUCK everyone "it" is gonna start to fly!!

I have windows 98 running on a box with 256MB of memory (don't ask why it
just happend) but to make a long story short when I boot 98 it uses 70% to
80% on boot up alone - if I open outlook, free agent and netscape it runs
out of resources - problem I think so!!

my $00.02

Drew

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Vettese, Nick A wrote:

> I know you are all going to hate me but I have to say this:
> 
> What are you doing that you can't keep Windows running.  Windows isn't that
> bad.  I am running NT4, 95, 98, and 4 Linux boxes, and the only time I have
> to reboot Windows is when I load configure or something.  You make Windows
> seem like it has no legs to walk on.  I love Linux, and I am doing a hell of
> a lot of studying to learn more, but if Windows is so bad why does 3/4ths of
> the world use it.  There are many options today, so it can't be the reason
> it is the only one out there.  You have Linux, Unix (all versions), BeOs,
> 95, 98, NT, Mac, OS/2, and others.  There are many office programs, business
> program, and anything else that might be needed that runs on other OSs.  If
> all of you are having that many problems then you better leave computers to
> the more capable.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ray beckler [mailto:rbeckler@erols.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:37 PM
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: Re: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame..
> 
> 
> Vale_Kenny@vanguard.com wrote:
> 
> > I use my Linux system about 20-25 hours a week, and I use my NT system
> about 3-4
> > hours a week.  Of that time less than 1% of the time on the Linux box is
> spent
> > in reboots, and 10% in reboots of the NT box.  Because NT is such a
> complete
> > *HOG*, I have to run it on a Pentium II system with a sh1tload of RAM and
> disk
> > space.  My Linux system is running on a Pentium 90 system, with half the
> RAM,
> > and slower drives.  I mean, yeah, it still runs as fast as the NT system,
> but I
> > can only imagine it on the Pentium II.  But I have to keep the damn NT, to
> use
> > it for testing.  Pisses me off.
> >
> > Just a small rant..
> 
> I run win95, linux and SCO opensever on a pentium 166.  NEVER have to reboot
> Linux
> or SCO but have daily visits from the blue/black screen of death on win.
> Same
> thing, I have to keep sindows just for certain applications.  Yep, pisses me
> off
> too.  Can't be happy all the time.
> 
> ray
> 
> 
> 
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