Well, hardware aside needing more memory. I feel XP is a better OS because it has more functionality then 2000. Of course if you do not need the extra functionality of XP, or can attain the same functionality with 3rd party applications, you are in the same spot using 2000.

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thanks... I'll update my signature.

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Answer to all the problems : Dual boot with windows!

sorry to disagree. Answer to all the problems: VmWARE (cracked copy) for linux.

I use linux because I can use free software legally. I don't support theft of software and neither should you.

then buy VmWARE from IBM. I use free software always I can. In fact, even in windows I use OpenOffice. But there are some times when there are just not free softwares taht do what you need. and I CERTAINLY don't care about M$'s or IBM's profits. they earn enough,

I don't support non-free software (i.e. closed source). I think sofrware should be free and avaiable to all of us... but when I need something that a demo version or a trial won't give me... I get a cracked copy...

Linux has MAINLY free software (and even though I shouldn't, by free I mean Open source). but there are some things (like winex) that are nor free... Or netscape... or vmware itself... or even the Nvidia drivers (which I need for my video card)... I don't like it... but If i haveto.. I use hem.

Here are a couple of articles you might have seen that tend to say similar things, at a detail level.

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stori...401.tsu_p.html

http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Linux.vs.Windows.html

Mandrake Linux 9.1 installed like a dream on my Thinkpad 600X. I dual boot my system with the default boot manager installed by Mandrake Linux. Nice.

I did have to figure out a thing or two on drive partitions, but that is readily available on the web. Here is a decent story on it: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/4269/4/

I can even access my Fat 32 drives, once I figured out how they were labeled in the file manager in KDE (win_c for my machine).

Good luck!

Don't pirate software......

Ok... I have this situation: hda (1-boot 2-swap 5-root) hdb(1-home). When I freed a space on hdb, so I could install windows.... it said that it needed a space in the primary drive... I don't like some cocky OS trying to control how I organiza my stuff. so I've decided that there was no space for windows on my PC.

For what is worth... I used to have dual boot with 98SE and MDK9.0 (using LiLo) and I liked it very much....

about pirating software... I don't like being ripped off by some company... and, as I said, I use free software as often as I can... but when it comes to choose, between paying to a company that wants nothing but the annihilation of Linux.... I'm really not very supportive

I feel your pain Nu-Be. That's part of the reason i do drugs, but i don't stop. It's like a forien language. You just have to keep practicing! I didn't know squat at fisrt, but i know a good bit about computers and how they work more now. It's quite interesting.

Funny how everybody who runs Linux seems to do (some form of illegal) drugs.

O'Reilly has some really good learning material.

I'd say give them some Mandrake or SuSE...much easier transition from Windows or Mac than Slack

If you're looking for an application, you'll get much more direct results using "which gcc"

They're pretty, sometimes fun, and some people like myself have old monitors (I have something burned into my screen from its previous owner). Personally I don't use screensavers...I just let the screen go black. Screensavers use unnecessary CPU cycles in my opinion.

This is a good thing, but I'd still prefer more distributors offering the option of NO operating system. I just go and repartition to my liking anyway.

Unfortunately Linux developers can't do much about this beyond requesting Linux drivers from hardware manufacturers or trying to blindly create drivers.

That's not surprising, considering Linux isn't much older than that. I'd say go back less than 5 years and you'll see a huge increase in usage since GUI desktops and window managers have become much more usable.

http://twdp.havenite.net - The Windows Ducumentation Project

It's well over-due. ;-)