Is linux free 4993

Jon Martin Solaas

I did it twice on the same machine. The first time was easy enough. Of course I had to reinstall Windows 95 lots of times on the machine I was running it on, too, so I had experience.

The reason I installed W-XP on the same machine twice is that it's file system parbreastions gradually deteriorated and it stopped booting successfully. It was easier to reinstall than to figure out what went wrong with the file systems. Furthermore, although I had the whole thing backed up to tape, I could not restore because W-XP would not boot, so I could not run the restore program.

I have Red Hat Linux 9 running on the same machine, and it had no problems at all, so it is unlikely to be a hardware problem. The machine is now a bit over 5 years old and has had no hardware problems. I did put a bigger air intake fan in the front (120x38mm instead of the 120x25mm fan it came with).

I did not need to download any drivers, but I did have to load the driver for my SCSI mag tape drive that was on CD-ROM from the manufacturer. For Linux, I did not need to install a driver for the mag tape drive.

I believe I also had to load in the software to monitor my UPS, but I had to do that with my Linux machines as well.

Nor have I. I did not like FC2, but it was stable. It just did not work for me.

They could be less stable if it took too much time to download all the source, compile it, make a distribution from it, test it, get the disks duplicated, etc. If it took too long, the security and other bug fixes corrected in the meantime would not be there, and since the users of these disks would not have a subscription to the provider's updates, they would not be notified of the necessity to upgrade, etc.

-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. V PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ^^-^^ 09:40:00 up 8 days, 2:42, 3 users, load average: 4.18, 4.22, 4.24