From: "R.S." 

Meh, I take the more complex route.  For my games I have an XP boot.  For
working I use RedHat (though I'd love to try out Suse sometime).  Although
I must say that I read the most amusing thing about linux a while ago:

 I finally managed to get rid of Linux
 Unfortunately I got rid of windows and all my data in the
process
 guess it didnt want to go down without a fight
                                --www.bash.org

I'm still waiting for LainOS to come out though.  There's some really good
programmers working on that project...although I doubt it'll be anytime
soon.

RS

"Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message news:40463569{at}w3.nls.net...
> Mandrake sucks because you can't play any good games with it. XP sucks
> because it's a resource pig so you have to buy a new computer. Windows
2000
> sucks because it won't run Need for Speed High Stakes even though it says
on
> the box that it can (man was I unpolite to that poor bastard on the other
> end of the customer service line - I feel a bit bad about it now...). So
> here's my advice: install Windows 95! Runs on any old piece of crap
computer
> you have around, runs nicely on 64Mb memory, *and* you can most likely get
a
> copy for free. Hell I think I have a few dozen copies around here
somewhere,
> I'll send them over if you can't find any (wopee good riddance to yet
> another few pounds of toxic waste)! 
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (damned if I know, I just don't like XP at all because it makes the 2.4Ghz
> monster on my left side feel slower than the 600Mhz old-timer on my right
> side running W2k)
>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:8093bb.635e78{at}harborwebs.com...
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Last night down at t'pub wi'mates of a techie nature. After discussing
> > Middlesborough's recent cup win...... & Leeds'es financial
difficulties
>  > G>....
> >
> > Anyway...
> >
> > Mate has a PC (brandname). It came preloaded with XP. He has yet to open
> the XP
> > packet (or so he says...)
> >
> > Now he's building a new PC for himself & palming the old one
off on wife
&
> kids
> > (basically kids.....)
> >
> > So he proposed installing his copy of XP onto 2'nd PC (tut tut). He says
> that
> > as XP came with the other machine he has never registered as he has
never
> been
> > asked to register.
> >
> > My Position : Mandrake just as good so why bother with XP at all, I can
> have
> > legit copies copied for Friday eve (when we usually meet).
> >
> > This bod: "I like XP, I have never yet paid for an OS &
don't intend to
> start
> > now. It's either come with the box or I've "reused" one
which did. I
have
> a
> > legit XP install disk which I have yet to touch."
> >
> > Middlesborough supporting Oracle/Unix type: MS is evil go with linux on
> moral
> > grounds.
> >
> > Win2K user: Same basic position as Geo (i.e. stick with Win2K) etc. coz
XP
> is
> > loaded with nasty anti-piracy "features"....
> >
> > This last bit lead onto the Win2K bod & Oranix bod making all sorts of
> > suggestions/statements which I rubbished as insane myths wrt XP. However
> truth
> > be told I don't know if they're myths or facts so....here goes:
> >
> > OK both machines will be on same (home) LAN.
> >
> > Fact or Myth
> >
> > A) If you install the same copy of XP on 2 machines & XP realises (e.g.
> via
> > some sort of LAN traffic) it will turn off one of the machines/stop it
> booting
> > &/or will send a message to MS in some way.
> >
> > True or false?
> >
> > B) If you go to Winupdate, MS will "know" that you have
the same copy on
2
> > machines & at that point MS will send a message to the machine which
will
> shut
> > it down/ prevent it from rebooting or will send BSA stormtroopers around
> to
> > beat your children till you cough up the readies (cash to you yanks).
> >
> > True or false?
> >
> > C) That if you change hardware it will then check with MS &...yup you
> guessed
> > it...shut down the machine or prevent it from re-booting, send round the
> BSA
> > stormtroopers etc.
> >
> > True or false?
> >
> > D) That none of the above happen with Win2K.
> >
> > True or false?
> >
> > E) That XP OEM is different in it's behaviour wrt all this compared to
XP
> > "retail box set".
> >
> > True or false?
> >
> > F) Any other similar things wrt same XP copy on 2 machines?
> >
> >
> > I'm hoping some of A,B or C are true but I am sceptical. Bod has
promised
> that
> > if anything like the above myths are facts then he'll try out Mdk9.2
> before
> > going in search of a "less than legit" copy of Win2K.
> >
> > He jumped from Win98 to XP & he's not going back to 98.
> >
> > Me + Oraunix type kept making the point that he can legitimately install
> an OS
> > w/o paying by using Mandrake but he likes XP & is used to it (but post
> convo
> > with 2k user would "settle" for 2k) & frankly he's
a bit of a MSOS bigot
> (& has
> > been since about MSDOS 5).
> >
> > I am torn between wanting bod to go for Mandrake & wanting to prove the
2k
> &
> > oraunix bods are both tinfoil hat merchants.
> >
> > Answers before 7-8 pm UK time Friday please 
> >
> >
> > Adam
>
>

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