Subj : Re: Which Linux for a beginning desktop?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : chris
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 10:16 pm

Mxsmanic wrote:

> chris writes:
> 
>> No - the "operating systems" are so unstable that they simply don't work.
> 
> No, the operating systems are stable.  However, some applications put
> hooks into the OS that destabilize it, for the sake of
> "user-friendliness."  This is very common in the desktop world, where
> user-friendliness is considered more important than security and
> reliability.

No.  Mean time to crash on the Dell server we bought last week as an
experiment was less than 20 minutes.  This is with a vanilla (Dell)
installation of Windoze "server" 2003 with no additional software.  

C.

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