Author: David Blackman
Date: 23:56:26 08/20/01
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I run MS-Win2000 on Athlon (actually a Duron-800) at work sometimes. I works very well, much better than any other MS OS i have ever seen. I have never tried chess on it though. You can adjust the priority of foreground/background tasks somewhere in a control panel. I guess if your friends give high priority to background, that would explain what they see. Apparently MS-Win-2000 needs lots of RAM. Mine has 256M which seems enough. 1GB should be plenty. Make sure you are protected by a good third party firewall and virus protection if you connect to the internet. MS-Win2000 has lousy security (although better than 98). My brief experience of NT is that it is worse to use than 2000. Some sysadmins at large installations prefer NT, probably because it has been around long enough that they know what the bugs are. It will be very hard to buy a legal copy of NT now. I also use Linux and like it a lot. It has the advantage of being cheap or even free, and is very nice if you have the patience and skill to configure it and get in the (mostly free) software you need. It is not all that great as installed straight out of the box, and might be a bit intimidating to newcomers. MySQL is good and very fast but a little quirky. PostgresSQL (not sure of spelling) has a reputation for being a bit more standard, and is also free. Out of the box, Linux security is not very good. Most distributions contain all the stuff you need to be much more secure than MS-Windows will ever be, but you have to configure it yourself. Be careful. There is not much (or any?) commercial chess software for Linux. There is a fair bit of freeware if you look around.
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