On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:29, Robert Jacobsen wrote:
I've had to re-install Windows many more times on peoples' machines because something in the original install went haywire. I can honestly say that I have never had to re-install the entire Linux kernel to fix a problem like that.
Ah, yes, the tri-annual reformatting of my windows box was always an issue I loved to spend an entire weekend doing...not! Format+install of windows and all necessary apps = ~36 hours. The same for linux = 3 hours (with SuSE distro, other distros take a few more hours). Now, in linux if there is a problem, I have *never* had to reformat it to fix it. So, I might spend an hour or two to get somethings working or fixing them, but so far, my time doing this in linux has *never* come close to the time I have spent fixing things in windows. Also, windows has a way of having problems that sometimes cannot be fixed in a timely manner (i.e. you'll have to spend a day manually going through the registry and file system to find/correct an issue, since there is almost NO documentation for windows), in which case a format may become necessary. At work I administer 2 Linux, 6 Solaris 8/9's, and 50 NT's...I'm always fixing the NT's, and I honestly forget the last time an end-user contacted me with an issue on a Solaris or Linux box. Being a scientific research lab, the users use the boxes fairly equally, time wise, too. -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 9:04am up 7 days, 7:49, 7 users, load average: 0.50, 0.22, 0.09