"atec 77" "atec 7 7 wrote in message news:gpo9
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TT wrote:


Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Never mind folks as Msoft will not be shipping a news reader with
Windows 7, nobody will know Usenet exists anyway after that.

Do believe after the fiasco of Vista that anyone will actually go to
the next M$ operating system?

Well it is free if you know where to look

What service pack number is it up to already? And how many dodgy drivers
are included :-))

so far proving not to need them
installed ferpectly on a quad xeon (3 gig) with 11 gig ram and 6x174 gig
scsi...

It will take a lot to get me away from XP Pro ;-)

it's ok for a home o/s I guess
maybe you should try a real o/s from one of the unix areas ?

Why? If XP does everything that you need, who needs the steep learning
curve of (say) Linux?

I have been running Linux since before v1.0 came out, have written numerous
drivers
and several applications and even with Wine or VMWare am still unable to run
many of my Comms programs and so still require Win3.11, Win98SE and WinXP to
accommodate all of it.

Apart from that, because it's not in daily use, I sometimes need to look up
the command line instructions if I want to change anything requiring root
privileges.
And that's from someone who began using the source code & compiling kernels
in 1991!

Linux is for people with a mainframe (Unix) background or a university
degree in IT. It is not for Mr & Mrs Joe Average no matter what you say,
even if the GUI's are becoming more user friendly every day. Try getting a
novice to install (say) Apache, or even find & install Midnight Commander on
their Linux box & you'll see what I mean.

ruff