Hi, thanks Duncan. I have renamed this since the topic has changed and it isn't really relevant to updating. Has anyone seen this months new scientist? There's an article about OS's used for browsing. It gives the percentages of different OS used to browse the www. Windows is by far the most and Linux has only a few percent, in the UK.
An old colleague of mine proposed it was because ms-farce is 'better'. I pointed out could it not be due to people in the UK generally being uneducated or lazy. Since at Manchester in our lab we use Fedora as it's quick to install and very easy to use so undergrads don't get intimidated. If I had my way, Debian would be better for the majority of systems with Gentoo on the Opterons. I have found Gentoo to be excellent due to it's configurability (is this a word) and speed. I have no intention of changing now however, I am always 'on-the-lookout for a superior workstation so I may change in the future to ia64 Gentoo. Are Iitanium machines the best (robust/speed). Or, are the Opterons or athlon64 better. For that matter how do amd machines differ? -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- [email protected] mailing list
