Goodsounds;320773 Wrote: > Ha - a pretty predictable answer to this question posed in the Linux > forum. > > As a non-techie, I would be curious to learn what the advantages are to > changing out the operating system under these circumstances, when the > application is ready to roll as is and the user has no technical > background. Thanks in advance for the edification.
Us, be biased? Oh No! If you have a system that can happily run XP, I think there is no real difference. If you have a machine that is marginally old/slow/small, than Linux will generally run a bit better. I found it may work about as fast with 256MB less ram, and a model or two slower processor. And if you just want to learn new stuff, the price is right. I find it a lot easier to add extra services to my Linux servers. Specifically, I run both DNS and DHCP server on my music server. I do this so that my SqueezeBoxen can think they are using DHCP, but I assign constant TCP/IP addresses (using the MAC address) so that the devices stay known. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pfarrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=200 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49951 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
