One year later--is Microsoft "Trustworthy"?

sure thing, why pay 300 dollars for win xp if unix (linux, redhad mandrake) is free, runs faster, has more options, (for the communitie) LOOKS GREAT!!, and more....
only 1 thing, all the games, programs and other stuff is made for windows, it dasn't run on linux, hehe, its their only rescue

Make that 2 things Style....the PHD you need to configure and maintain those unix/linux systems...

no, it's not as hard as evrybody say, ehm let me see, i thought it was mandrake 9.1 or some, realy awsome but ok, i've to commit, it hard to get used to something, however on my main machine i still run xp

I just installed Red Hat 8.
Let me tell you, I am IMPRESSED. It came a long way.
And what blew me away is that the graphical interface is extremely friendly, and COOL looking. Even better than Windows.

A casual user could easily use Red Hat 8 without ever needing the command line. Linux has come a long way, and I'm very optimistic for the near future. Microsoft has better watch out.

told ya

so was install painless or did you have hardwar issues, does 8.0 do plug and play etc. ?

Well, my case is a little different because I installed it over Virtual PC, so hardware isn't taken into account. All the hardware is configured as "generic".
I plan to eventually install in as a double partition on my home computer, I'll know then.

last linux i gave a try was turbo 7.0 i think a real pain even with setting up native linux partions before hand with partition magic the installer was not user freindly. How dose virtual pc funtion?

Setting up native partitions was painless with Red Hat's graphical installer.
Virtual PC creates a file and makes the guest OS think that it's a hard drive. From then on you can install any Linux or Windows OS an run it WITHIN your regular Windows session, in a window. Kinda cool.
It's a little slow, but since you can allocate exclusively the amount of RAM you want to your "Virtual PC", if you have lots of RAM, then it's much better. If I had 1 Gig of RAm, I could give 512 Megs to my Virtual PC and keep 512 to my normal Windows XP use. But since I only have 512 in total, I don't want to give more than 256 to Virtual PC and it's therefore a little slow.

I read recently that Wine can run painlessly Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX under Linux. Now these are the two applications in Windows that I can't do winthout. I'm going to test it and see if it's really true. If it is, then Windows may probably lose me. Of course, I'd keep Windows in a second partition, but if I can get Flash and Dreamweaver running, I'm ready to make Red Hat Linux my main OS.

sounds interesting any thats what they make large drives nad 512 sticks for

You don't give a RAM stick to you Virtual PC. It's a slide bar: you give what you want. You can even change it when your Guest OS is off. Gotta know also that the memory allocation isn't permanent. Once your guest OS isn't on, you have full memory for your host OS.

I've got SuSE 8.0 sitting here on my notebook - and in fact, I've got it installed on my desktop too. I love it. SuSE is great - which is something you'll never hear me say about Linux (being a BSD fan, m'self,) and yet... I can't really remember the last time I've booted into it.

uhm, isn't suse linux?? what is your prefered desktop, kde or gnome?

Back to the original querie. No. Old Crab trusts no one. >

Red Hat 8.0 uses Gnome for it new "Blue Curve" interface. It's awsome.

By the way, the curious should watch the demo: http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/flash/redhat6_5.html (requires Flash)

Yup - to me, SuSE is /the/ Linux. Beats any offerings made by Mandrake or Red Hat by a landslide (Plus the professional version also comes on a nice, handy DVD as well - talk about a fast installation!)

As for Gnome or KDE? KDE 3 - hands no, no comparison. Ever since it came out, I won't even consider Gnome any more.

Give me KDE and bash and I'm a happy user.

Yup - to me, SuSE is /the/ Linux. Beats any offerings made by Mandrake or Red Hat by a landslide (Plus the professional version also comes on a nice, handy DVD as well - talk about a fast installation!)

As for Gnome or KDE? KDE 3 - hands no, no comparison. Ever since it came out, I won't even consider Gnome any more.

Give me KDE and bash and I'm a happy user.

Eep.

Sorry for the double posting. Finger slipped.