On Monday 03 February 2003 04:13 am, et wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 01:29 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > BTW how is win2000 never tried it > > (seriously) > > let me tell you about a OS that bites... > I run a SMP box, (p3 1000s) that is sweet with Mandrake SMP, and I used to > show people how much slower winME was on the same box, (knowing full well > win ME only saw the one CPU),, well when i got a gift of win2000pro, I > installed it as a tripple boot, and let me tell you,, in spite of W2k > noticeing the second CPU, it is a bigger dog than win ME as far as getting > things done multitasking. in Mandrake, I have no noticable slow down to > burn a cd, download an ISO, use the ViaVoice and dictate a letter and allow > the printer to be used from a differnet computer on the lan, as well as > have about a dozen winows in Konq and six in Galeon. as well as backup the > hard drive to a different computer. in win 2k burning a cd is about all it > can do at one time. I used to see if I could do so many things that the box > would slow down, but I have given that up in Mandrake, I just don't see a > slowdown. in win ME I can burn a cd and surf the web at the same time, just > can't burn a cd and render a video at the same time, but in Mandreake, > while the render may take a little longer, there is none of the mouse > freezing that win2k cann't get past.
LOL Well I help out in a local Computer Renaissance, mostly installing mandrakeLinux for the customers that want linux. I had a media-vs-drive problem so asked then to dup one of my CDs on their win2K server. They did and it was a TOTAL blank. I showed them that and they rebooted the server and burned again (perfect, and it worked on the target system). Then the tech rebooted the win2K server again. I asked about that and he said that it is their standard practice to reboot after every burn. I had a mandrake box with me, with a 40x12x48 CDRW and a very pedestrian SiS 630 chipset with a 1G Celeron and 256M Memory. I started burning a CD, then added an edit of a big text file (with OpenOffice) and configuring the machine to connect to the internet through their LAN with MCC and finishing with a dictionary search using Kdict .... The techs were impressed, cause their much heavier P4 based server could only burn a CD and could not complete any configuration while it was burning. Civileme
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