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Doctor V:
I'll admit that Win2K crashes very little, but it does crash.  At work we had a small network of 3 servers all running streaming servers, all with win2000.  Yeah, they lasted a long time, I think they went flawlessly for over 6 months.  But finally one crashed, and that caused great pain and suffering for about a day, in which we had to come up with a good excuse.  Then we decided to set it up so it would auto reboot every 6 weeks to prevent another error.  All of our other servers are running Red Hat linux, mostly 7.3, and not one has ever crashed.  Windows may work, but Linux does work alot better dispite costing much less. The hardware necessary to run is costs less too.  Maybe when there is a crash in windows, its caused by an application.  But even errant applications cannot crash linux.  If you are happy with win, go for it, but in the long run you will be far better off if you switch.

V

doublefresh:
Until I'm 100% comfortable using Linux I'll be running both.

I know how to use a lot of MS programs and I have little experience with Linux.

Something that I know how to do with MS may take me all day to figure out with Linux.

Even all the commands are different rather than IPconfig /all it's ifconfig. It's going to take me a while to get used to but I'm learning slowly.

In the last few days I've got an Apache server running, Samba working, and a neat little program called webmin to ease the configuration of my servers. I still can't get wine to work and I've been fighting with Gnome to install some new themes.

With 6 computers at my desk I don't have to pick one or the other. I run them all :)

doublefresh:
BTW,

I had Mandrake 8 and now 9 on this Computer and it crashes after 4 hours of inactivity. Am I to judge Linux for doing this to this machine? W2K works just fine for months at a time on the same box.

No, I'm not that shallow. I'm sure it's hardware not that Linux sucks rabbit testicles :)


Peace
2X

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by doublefresh:
Even all the commands are different rather than IPconfig /all it's ifconfig. It's going to take me a while to get used to but I'm learning slowly.
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We'll be glad to help you out on your learning. It's interesting you bring up "ipconfig" vs "ifconfig". It's a typical example of how Microsoft did not conform to the standards of all of the other OSs thus making your life harder when you want to try something else. It's been "ifconfig" in almost all UNIX systems I have used for the last 12 years. It wasn't until *NT that "ipconfig" showed up in Windows. Why couldn't they just have used "ifconfig" like everyone else? But I think you will pick things up quickly. Webmin is a great utility. It's good to learn what is really happening at the OS level though so can just use it as an extra tool rather than a crutch.

rtgwbmsr:
Hmm...I'll give you half credit. From someone I know:

 
quote: The biggest downer has been XP. I have a laptop with XP now, as well as my desktop. And BOTH have crashed in the last week and needed to be totally reinstalled - and the programs etc all reinstalled as well .... so much for XP being an advance on previous OSes!!  Never had this with Win 2k!!
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XP is definately worse than 2k. I will agree that certain things DO cause XP to crash more often, such as Graphics work (I would know, I do loads of it).

My uptime records and how the record stopped.

XP: 7 days, 7 hours, 13 minutes. BSOD Crash ironically after exiting SiSoft Sandra to check the uptime. Typically crashes in Maya and Bryce (especially while exiting or rendering).

Mac (7200): 44 days, 17 hours. The hard drive died, and I didn't have RAID at the time.

Linux (Slackware) 58 days. The UPS couldn't handle 3 hour power outage    .

Windows 2000: 10 days. DoS attack + Nimda, had to be shut down.

[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: The Muffin Man: Mac Commando ]

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