Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: MICROSOFT has Bought Over Linus Torvalds!! From: richard AT stardate DOT bc DOT ca (Richard Sanders) X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.9 (Released Version) (x86 32bit) References: <00040515484001 DOT 06764 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Host: wlp50.rapidnet.net Message-ID: <38ec020e_2@news.vphos.net> Date: 5 Apr 2000 20:18:38 -0800 X-Trace: 5 Apr 2000 20:18:38 -0800, wlp50.rapidnet.net Lines: 44 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article <00040515484001 DOT 06764 AT sparky DOT lineo DOT com>, stevja AT lineo DOT com says... > --- snip --- >Windows 95 is a massive pain to install... (almost harder + trickier >than Linux) When I installed, for some strange reason, it didn't >install CD-Rom drivers, and so when it 'boots windows for the > >first time' and is trying to install all of these drivers, my >CDROM doesn't work, and I can't install anything. Your CD-ROM is most likly one that Windows does not have bult in support for. Try making your hard drive bootable with DOS (anything) and install the CD-ROM drivers for DOS and make sure it works. Then load Windows. If your CD-ROM is still unrecognised you can just um-rem the CD-ROM driver in config sys and reboot. You CD-ROM should now work in Windows. You *may* be able to then rem out the CD-ROM driver in config.sys and still have the CD-ROM work. >Also, if you have a 350 mhz processor or faster, windows >wont boot at all until you update some files. And you can't update the files if Windows won't boot, I found that out when I upgraded my CPU to an AMD K62-450. I had to put the old CPU back in to do the update and then swap CPOUs again. >> Applixware and StarOffice are freebeerware IIRC. > >But they would still have to learn the new interface. Staroffice for Windows and for Linux look and work the same, just like Netscape. >Windows NT makes a horrible server. I guess I have been doing something wrong for the last five years because I have been using NT 3.51 and NT 4.00 for mail, web RADIUS accounting. I have only had to reboot when I have made software upgrades and once when when I replaced a hard drive that had a howling bearing. One of my servers has been runnibg for well over a year and not restarted, I guess that is a horrible server. I am not advocating M$, I am advocating "If it ain't broke don't fix it". My DNS runs on Linux.