On Thursday 12 April 2001 09:40, Greg Partin wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> Being a newbie, i've wondered why Linux OS is more reliable and stable of a
> platform then, say, Windows. What makes a Linux system able to run for
> years on end without crashing, but my PC running Windows 2000 seems to
> crash once a day? Is it the fact that there are so many 3rd party vendor
> programs on my machine? How about the fact that most of Linux is written
> in C or C++ (what is the Windows OS written in anyway? )? I am definately
> converting over to Linux with all of your help...gonna install my first
> version of Mandrake this weekend!
Hi Greg, and welcome to the flock!
Linux is more stable for a number of reasons. Being open-source, anyone
can look at the code and fix bugs. With Windoze you must wait for
Micro$oft to do it. Linux is also more independant in that a fault here
or there only hits one or two applications, and rarely the whole thing.
For example, I have a hardware fault on this laptop which Windoze cannot
tolerate. Win98se hangs within an hour, even in safe mode. With Linux,
I generally have uptimes of many days, as the system is more tolerant of
the hardware.
For a newbie, I can definately recommend Mandrake. The latest is 7.2,
and it rocks. I'm running it myself on this laptop.
Good luck!
Regards,
Ozz.
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