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Does someone have to be a "Gates disciples": to 'take a shot at you"? How about the OS/2 warpies or the pre OSX users, can't they shoot one of for the home team?

As for dual booting, I haven't benchmarked any of the flavors of Windows to the flavors of Fedora or Mandrake, but as far as start up goes, Win2k is slower than Fedora Core starting and Mandrake has been faster than Fedora, but WinXP and Mandrake are about the same due to XP's prefetch. While running any of the OSes, it's been favorable to find and turn off as many unnecessary services running, whether it be Windows Time or Sendmail or Bluetooth or Wireless on a wired system. I prefer Mandrakes' firewall system slightly over Windows XP SP2 but can't stand Fedora's split personality.

And by the way, the most BSODs I've seen in my work experience where back on Win 98 (issues with video card/drivers) on Gateway boxes, and Gateway boxes where no blessing since about each unit had a least one item that needed replacement during their life cycle (so a poor machine contributed a lot to the blue). 2k was better than 98 and streamlined, XP was too Applish with glossy buttons and bright color schemes but then their is Classic mode (or turning off the performance hitters under the System Properties).

Fedora can waffle on some of its eye candy and despises our Dell laptops (where as I've reinstalled it several times to correct video and resource issues), but Win 2k and XP don't have those problems (they have their own like people who make viruses that you have to have all your Svc packs offline and ready for a reinstall). I should keep all the Fedora updates on a separate partition for as long as it took to get Yum to update everything it could (which seems a little too much . . . hmmm.).

Oh well, . . when the meteor strikes, the faultline cracks, the tsunami floods, the Yellowstone super erupts and the day after tomorrow isn't so bright, we can all go back to processing with sticks and stones. Build a better abacus.; Posted by: Boot_Agnostic Posted on: 12/29/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use