On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:00:05PM +1100, enterfornone ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:01:03PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > Haha, cant surf the web in linux, you should be a comedian.
> >
> > heres a tip
> > www.mozilla.org
> >
> > most dists install netscape by default.
> >
> > I honestly cant think of anything windows has over linux.
> > maybe divx, ill give windows divx for now as libavifile is kinda
> > shakey. Windows has mastered crashing, and successfully bogging
> > down any hardware combo you can throw at it (is windows 2000 any
> > faster to you than win 311 was?)
>
> Can't say I've tried installing Win3 on my PIII, but 2000 and IE is
> considerably faster and more stable than Linux and Netscape or Mozilla.
> To be fair Linux is probably more stable up until the point
> that you attempt to bring up a web page.
***HUH***??????????????????
I have two machines sitting site by site:
* RH6.2 with all the latest patches running
- company mail server
- company squid
- "bastion host"
- webserver (used for data base access and other stuff)
- *MY* workstation
- it is used by other users as well (ssh)
- netscape 4.75
- very busy machine .........
* win2000 running 4.75/ie5
- testing platform to check design for webpages
- NOT busy at all
The first machines hasnt been rebooted since 59 days (that day I shifted some
furniture within my office) and is bullet proof stable. Once in a while I make
a mistake in the webpage design (HTML, java and javascript) which crashes Netscape
*BUT* not the OS.
The second machine hangs twice a week (and yes it is designed by the guidelines
of Micro_f&^%&^%_softs hardware guide and has only state of the art hardware)
and needs to be restarted.
Linux 1 Windows 0.
>
> Konqeror is getting close but there are still a few things that need to
> be ironed out. Mozilla will probably be usable when they get a release but
> it's certainly pre-beta at present. Netscape 4 is a joke. I'll use
^^^^^^^^^^
bullshit.
> Lynx or wget if I need to quickly look up a URL without rebooting.
>
I guess you misunderstand the difference between an OS getting killed
and an apllication getting killed.
> At present if I'm going to be doing any serious web browsing I
> need to reboot. Not because IE can render things that the others can't,
> but because Linux still lacks a stable and responsive web browser (not
> counting Lynx and friends).
The only thing IE does better is rendering, yes you are correct.
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Jobst
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