Re: This is not good!

[Bruce Richardson <brichardson lineone net>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Lane Lester wrote:

> Statux wrote:
> > You're running Linux, NT, and 98? That's sick. Total waste of a machine. NT
> > does what 98 can do and much more. Then it's sort of down to NT or Linux...
> 
> I have those three on my system, and I don't remember the last time I
> booted W98.  

It's going to be *fun* watching all the hoops people will have to jump
through when Windows 2000 limps out.  Not only will it not run many Win
9.x apps, it'll choke on a fair number of current NT ones.  Are we going
to start seeing Linux/9x/NT/2000 PC's?
 
> I use NT a lot for my desktop publishing, but I'm able to use Linux
> for more and more other things.

It was a big moment for me when I switched the default on my dual-boot
from Windows to Linux.  Getting e-mail the way I wanted it was the decider
for me.

> Oh, yes, Win98 seems to be the only OS which allows me to get maximum
> MIDI performance from my Creative Labs AWE64, but as implied above, I
> don't do much with that.

Hell, Linux doesn't even support my sound-card yet (Diamond Sonic, Aureal
Vortex chip).  I can wait.  But not till next year, please.