Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/01/12:20:41
* Peter Davis (03-04-01 17:46 +0100)
>>> XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS.
>>
>> Hardly.
>>
>> NT 4 and 2000 have always been perfectly stable and reliable for me,
>> running for days and weeks on end without trouble. They have additional
>> (subjective) benefit of not having garish, cartoonish GUIs, though 2K
>> shows some tendencies. Fortunately, most of the silly stuff can be turned
>> off.
>
> NT4, 2000 and XP are all moderately stable, but none of them is what I
> would call "rock solid".
Me, too. I'd only call XP "rock solid".
> I've only had XP for less than a month, but I've hung the OS several times,
> and hung Explorer, which is really interesting.
I've been using XP since September 2001. I'm not using Explorer[1],
just SpeedCommander. If the Explorer hangs, I kill it and restart it
via Task Manager - doesn't hurt the OS.
> It's certainly possible to do this with NT and 2K also.
Easily.
Okay, let's kill this thread. It's becomming quite offtopic...
Thorsten
[1] Okay it's the shell, but not for specific things
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