Author: Jon Dart
Date: 14:29:07 12/18/00
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On December 18, 2000 at 14:39:01, Paul Doire wrote: >I'm interested in the stability of the Linux O/S. It's very stable. Much more so than Windows 95 or 98. Windows NT is pretty good .. it is really hard to crash the whole OS. >Mandrake appears to be the most user friendly and to be optimized for Intel >processors. Mandrake is a good distro. >Wine and VMWare apparently allow the use of Windows programs, while running >the Linux O/S. >This seems to be the best of both worlds,the rock-like stability of Linux >and the flexibility of Windows applications. Yes and no. I've had long and painful experience with Windows emulators, including expensive commercial ones. In my experience, these things are fragile at best. There are other alternatives. It is easy to dual-boot a PC to run both Linux and Windows. You do have to reboot to change environments, but it's not very difficult. There's even a utility (called "loadlin"?) that can be set up as a shortcut in Windows. Click on it, it switches to MS-DOS mode, loads the Linux kernel and boots it. Takes about 5 seconds. (N.b. this worked in Windows 98, it may not work in other Windows variants). You can easily move files across OSs because Linux lets you mount DOS formatted disks. I used to do this but now I have a home network: a couple of Linux boxes in the basement, connected with a wireless LAN to a Windows box upstairs. I can login to Linux and do stuff there from my PC. --Jon
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