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Re: [OT]WINXP WORTH THE MONEY

• Posted by xerox_irs at lvcm.com May 31, 2003
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(WinXPpro)In my neck of the woods, in wallmart in las vegas nevada it just(a
couple months ago) dropped to 269 from 300 from 390 from SOME HUGE AMOUNT
either 500 or 900 I dont remember. The price is not what is important, but
the gain I get from using it is. I have win98se on all of my computers, is
there any good reason to make that WinXP? Does it go faster, or easier or
what? I like win98se(a very little be than 95) and I love DOS absolutly. Ive
use carious *nixes(freebsd, redhat, and a few others i dont remember) and
FreeBSD really impressed me. One thing that I'm starting to notice is that
software makers are outdating/obsoleting win98, they use this new Visual
Basic and it has new files for Win2000/XP and they will actually mess up
win98(you need to reinstall it after words). I feel anything that is made
for win98 will work fine on winxp, but not the other way around, and in my
mind this is a crime(cause win98 is nice). Can somebody tell me if
WINE(Windows stuff on linux) runs all the WinXP stuff Win98 won't, Please?

Daniel Kluss
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip D." <philip1987 at hotmail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: RE: [OT]WINXP WORTH THE MONEY


>
>
> irvm at ellijay.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Saturday 31 May 2003 01:20 pm, Daniel Kluss  wrote:
> >
> > > Is Winxp worth the time to download and 10 cents for the blank cd to
> > > burn
> > > it on or the $300 to buy it?
> >
> > Since you asked:
> > Yesterday I installed a new server at one of my clients' offices.
> > I installed Mandrake 9.1 and Windows XP, dual boot.
> >
> > The Mandrake install went without any problem, only asking me to
> > select a password, name the computer, and indicate which workgroup
> > it belonged to. It then instantly recognized the network, and, using
> > LinNeighborhood, I could see and connect to all the other computers'
> > shared
> > directories without a problem. (Other computers are running XP or Win98)
> >
> > The Windows XP installed ok too, after complaining because the disk
> > already
> > had dos on it and making me format the drive. It required 4 or 5 tries
> > to set
> > up the network, before windows finally was willing to admit that there
> > indeed
> > was a network. After that, XP functioned ok, but *much* slower than
> > Linux for
> > the identical tasks, like responding to a click on the menu or browsing
> > a
> > directory.
> >
> > Among the other critical differences:
> >
> > 1. Windows cost $199.95,  Mandrake cost $6.99
> >
> > 2. Windows XP must be "activated" by calling Microsoft.
> > Without activation, it only runs 30 days.
> > You can't activate 2 computers with the same copy of XP.  MS
> > supposedly keeps track of things like this.
> >
> > 3. Windows comes with notepad and IE, but not much other software,
> > while Linux comes with, let's see....
> > 5 browsers, 17 graphics programs, 3 wordprocessors, 3 spreadsheets,
> > 4 ftp programs, 14 audio programs, 6 instant messenger clients,
> > 3 or 4 newsreaders, the apache webserver,  complete compilers for
> > C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, as well as interpreters such as Ruby, Perl,
> > Python,
> > Java........
> >
> > You decide which is the better bargain.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Irv
> >
> >
> Sorry, I guess I just don't have a wide knowledge of these things.  I
> just like the GUI on XP.  I have never even seen Linux before.  I've
> only been a programmer for less than a year, and only with Euphoria.
> I'm only 16-years-old.
>
> Philip
>
> P.S. Win XP Pro is only $200, not $300.  Win XP Home is $100.
>
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