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My second post.
In my company, several of my co-workers have already upgraded to XP. Most of them are not happy with it. Although it is more stable than windows 98 or ME, its probably not as stable as windows 2000 professional. Not yet at least, remember Win2K has been through 3 service packs and has seen many upgrades over 2 1/2 years. Also, we had some backwards compatibility problems with it. For some reason an ActiveX component we were working with would not fully function. There's not alot you can do with XP that you can't with Win2K also, so you might want to hold off on the upgrade to XP until some more patches are released, or not upgrade at all if what you are using works already.
As for Bill Gates. I almost feel like XP has high specks and dosn't support all hardware just to get people to upgrade it. I don't like that. There's are also some other issues that bother me. I don't like how Windows Media Player is bundled into it, and I'm not sure about what 9.0 is doing behind the scenes. This is not good business.
As for Linux. Linux really is a great OS, it would be great if more people were using it. I have been using Mandrake 9.0, but plan on trying out Redhat 8.0 soon. My first month with Linux was painful, but once I figured it out, I fell in love with it. I don't think I'll ever look back. Which distro is best depends on your needs. For a beginner, Mandrake, Lycrosis, and Suse are supposed to be the easiest. Redhat seems to always be the fastest in supporting the latest software/hardware, and is probably the most used.
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