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I'm interested in *nix, and have almost done more installations of various distros than I can quite remember, but I find the learning curve puts me off when something breaks or begins broken and won't respond to treatment.
Either it doesn't have the programs and stuff that I want, or it does, but won't work. :D
I'm sticking to Win98, given that it is fairly stable for me, and that MS is not currently... erm... 'targeting' 98 the way they are XP. They aren't trying to sneak in 'helpful' features which ruin things... as much.
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I'm interested in *nix, and have almost done more installations of various distros than I can quite remember, but I find the learning curve puts me off when something breaks or begins broken and won't respond to treatment.
Either it doesn't have the programs and stuff that I want, or it does, but won't work. :D
I'm sticking to Win98, given that it is fairly stable for me, and that MS is not currently... erm... 'targeting' 98 the way they are XP. They aren't trying to sneak in 'helpful' features which ruin things... as much.
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With 500 MB RAM I would prefer Windows XP Pro. because Win98 doesnt support more
than 128 MB correctly, so more RAM can even make your system slower.
Other reasons for WinXP are NTFS and the better support with updates.
I think you should wait for Servicepack 1 then go and run WinXP.
Additionally use xpantispy so WinXP wont phone home so much.
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With 500 MB RAM I would prefer Windows XP Pro. because Win98 doesnt support more
than 128 MB correctly, so more RAM can even make your system slower.
Other reasons for WinXP are NTFS and the better support with updates.
I think you should wait for Servicepack 1 then go and run WinXP.
Additionally use xpantispy so WinXP wont phone home so much.
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I to Strongly Recomend Mandrake 8.2 I use on my Server at Home and at the Office works Magic
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I to Strongly Recomend Mandrake 8.2 I use on my Server at Home and at the Office works Magic
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Originally posted here by gcfd688
security wise if you get all updates it will fix most of the problems with security.
xp pro has an excellent firewall built in and works to my favor.
Well, that kinda goes for most OS's.. if you update them, you fix an issue... therefore, that issue doesn't affect the PC anymore, thus increasing the security...
XP has an excellent firewall? Really!?!? They must have updated it since I last saw it, because it wasn't very good... nearly every free firewall on the market was miles ahead of it, offering features that XP just didn't do... I often noticed that the XP firewall was the cause of more problems than the solution.....
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Originally posted here by gcfd688
the best antivirus is fix it utilities.
mcafee and norton will lock you out from the internet.
Wha? I use Norton, and I'm sure many other people use McAfee, and I hate to break it to you, I'm on the net... most people agree that I really shouldn't be though..
In other words, they don't lock you out of the internet... If they did, why would McAfee offer web services?.. I think when you tried using them, you just had something misconfigured...
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Originally posted here by gcfd688
xp won't give you blue screen of death.
win 98 is verry buggy and blue screen of death happens even if you get all the updates!!!!!
XP can and will give you a BSoD... I've seen them on quite a few separate occasions...
What you've gotta remember is that every OS can have problems with a PC...
Take mine for instance.... Windows 98, 2K (Pro & Adv Server).. they run fine... the one time I installed XP... it crashed a lot, would take ages to boot, and generally do all sorts of crazy stuff...
I'm not saying that Windows 98 is rock solid.... just that I think most people over exaggerate the amount it crashes...
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Originally posted here by monoton
With 500 MB RAM I would prefer Windows XP Pro. because Win98 doesnt support more
than 128 MB correctly, so more RAM can even make your system slower.
Other reasons for WinXP are NTFS and the better support with updates.
I think you should wait for Servicepack 1 then go and run WinXP.
Additionally use xpantispy so WinXP wont phone home so much.
I believe the limitation in Windows 98 that it will only use the first 128MB of memory only affects the operating system.. So, of your 500MB of RAM, Windows can only use 128MB, but all your applications can get the rest...
Granted, this isn't as good as your OS being able to use the entire amount of your memory, but its not that great an issue when choosing the OS...
I'd recommend Windows 98, because
A: You don't have enough memory, and probably won't be able to get to the level required for XP to run well....
B: I'm a fan of older games, and I had no small amount of trouble getting the games to work with XP... Its application compatability is much better than Windows 2K's, but IMHO, it still not quite good enough.. but its close....
BTW, and this goes to all people, if your asking people's opinion on what you should run, list your full system specs... while you may only have 98 something meg of RAM, you could have an AMD XP 1600+... it will help people make better suggestions, based more on what resources you have available...
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Quote:
Originally posted here by gcfd688
security wise if you get all updates it will fix most of the problems with security.
xp pro has an excellent firewall built in and works to my favor.
Well, that kinda goes for most OS's.. if you update them, you fix an issue... therefore, that issue doesn't affect the PC anymore, thus increasing the security...
XP has an excellent firewall? Really!?!? They must have updated it since I last saw it, because it wasn't very good... nearly every free firewall on the market was miles ahead of it, offering features that XP just didn't do... I often noticed that the XP firewall was the cause of more problems than the solution.....
Quote:
Originally posted here by gcfd688
the best antivirus is fix it utilities.
mcafee and norton will lock you out from the internet.
Wha? I use Norton, and I'm sure many other people use McAfee, and I hate to break it to you, I'm on the net... most people agree that I really shouldn't be though..
In other words, they don't lock you out of the internet... If they did, why would McAfee offer web services?.. I think when you tried using them, you just had something misconfigured...
Quote:
Originally posted here by gcfd688
xp won't give you blue screen of death.
win 98 is verry buggy and blue screen of death happens even if you get all the updates!!!!!
XP can and will give you a BSoD... I've seen them on quite a few separate occasions...
What you've gotta remember is that every OS can have problems with a PC...
Take mine for instance.... Windows 98, 2K (Pro & Adv Server).. they run fine... the one time I installed XP... it crashed a lot, would take ages to boot, and generally do all sorts of crazy stuff...
I'm not saying that Windows 98 is rock solid.... just that I think most people over exaggerate the amount it crashes...
Quote:
Originally posted here by monoton
With 500 MB RAM I would prefer Windows XP Pro. because Win98 doesnt support more
than 128 MB correctly, so more RAM can even make your system slower.
Other reasons for WinXP are NTFS and the better support with updates.
I think you should wait for Servicepack 1 then go and run WinXP.
Additionally use xpantispy so WinXP wont phone home so much.
I believe the limitation in Windows 98 that it will only use the first 128MB of memory only affects the operating system.. So, of your 500MB of RAM, Windows can only use 128MB, but all your applications can get the rest...
Granted, this isn't as good as your OS being able to use the entire amount of your memory, but its not that great an issue when choosing the OS...
I'd recommend Windows 98, because
A: You don't have enough memory, and probably won't be able to get to the level required for XP to run well....
B: I'm a fan of older games, and I had no small amount of trouble getting the games to work with XP... Its application compatability is much better than Windows 2K's, but IMHO, it still not quite good enough.. but its close....
BTW, and this goes to all people, if your asking people's opinion on what you should run, list your full system specs... while you may only have 98 something meg of RAM, you could have an AMD XP 1600+... it will help people make better suggestions, based more on what resources you have available...
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