Windows Vista Beta 1 is already superior to Linux. 4363

Sally Vadi

True enough, but it is supposed to work and has worked for over a year. It just quit, if it was VirusScan that quit and not the OS, this morning.

Because they have higher expectations of what an OS should do, I imagine.

Advice from whom? For an OS like Linux, I do not even need a virus scanner.

My old machine runs Windows XP and Linux. It had run Windows successfully last week, when I made a backup of the entire file system on tape, and a backup of my Quicken data on CD-RW.

I not only have the two backups mentioned above, and I have a couple of hours work in Quicken since those backups were made, but Linux backs up my E: drive where the critical data reside. But since Windows will not complete booting and logging in as me, I cannot get to where I need to be to restore anything from the backup. As far as I can tell, I will need to reload Windows XP, reload Quicken and TurboTax, and then restore all the data in the E: drive from my Linux backup tape after I restore the Linux OS that loading Windows will mess up.

If you do not trust what I write, why read it? That is very helpful. 8-(

-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. V PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ^^-^^ 22:05:00 up 49 days, 15:58, 3 users, load average: 4.25, 4.10, 3.48