Depends where you are coming from:
Win98 - WAY more stable (ie, its NT), but also way more hungry (mine
starts at about 50meg) IMO, 98 is a VERY sick joke. Good for games. or
it was. 2K covers that now.
NT4 - as stable, if not a little more so. I havn't had a decient crash
yet. Hungrier, also - NT starts about 20meg, 2K is about 50. 128Meg
MINIMUM for development, where you would formally get away with 64.
Linux - no contest. Win2K is prettier and easier for most to use, but
Linux is (light)years ahead in stability.
My machine is a K6-2 350 w/ 128meg + TNT2 + 17gigs of disk, and it works
SWEET. My laptop is the next one to get 'done', its a PII 400 w/192meg +
10gig disk. I'm not expecting any problems with it.
BTW, ALL the 'bigwigs' from the US were using 2K at the conference
(DavidI, Charlie C, Blake Stone etc).
N
Matthew Comb wrote:
>
> Nic, its nice to hear good things about it. We got the keyboard thing sorted
> in the end. Was sharing the same IRQ as the network card. Windows98 didn't
> seem to mind but win2k did.
>
> I am really after a bit more stability with it.
>
> Hope it comes through.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nic Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 8:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: win2k
>
> > I have RC3 on my home PC - works like a dream - everything works with it
> > that worked with NT4, except the optical out port on my sound card
> > (which is coming as soon as the manif. gets the reference driver source,
> > I'm told. All other sound stuff works fine).
> >
> > Win98 (WDM) drivers work for everything bar video cards (ie, works for
> > Creative DVD decoder), cd writing works (thanks people - got an HP 8200i
> > - lovely piece of equipment!) etc.
> >
> > You just have to read the NG's and make sure you get the right versions
> > of stuff (eg, EasyCD, dont install DirectCD etc)
> >
> > My laptop is next, as soon as I establish that Inprise Application
> > Server 4 works (Delphi 5, JBuilder 3 and JBuilder 3 for Solaris all work
> > just fine).
> > All in all, I'm impressed. I finally get to use my USB ports! (and the
> > USB MS optical mouse I bought)
> >
> > Nic
> >
> > > Matthew Comb wrote:
> > >
> > > This is really offtopic and I apologise for that but I have just tryed
> > > to install Win2k RC2 on my machine and the bloody thing won't even
> > > detect a standard PS2 Keyboard.
> > >
> > > Whats even better, you can install the whole OS but it won't have a
> > > keyboard installed and you can't install one?
> > >
> > > Anyone experienced this. Does anyone have RC3 yet?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Matt.
> >
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