Debian setup (was Re: M$ brings the 'net to unix)

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On 09/02/98 at 09:44 AM, "Michael A. Endsley" <al7oj@customcpu.com>
said:

>Yes, it was bad marketing, but the OS beats anything that M$ has! BTW-
>I use NT at work, and I can't believe how often it crashes! They
>finally gave us 2 machines just so we can do our morning reports and
>company emai!

OS/2 main problem with long uptimes has been power outages and dual
booting Debian.

As for your NT crashes, how many users?  Set the box up right using
_only_ top quality hardware.  A properly setup NT server on quality
hardware can stay up for weeks if not 2-3 months.  Yes, Bro Brown, I do
know of such a NT network.  The Sysadmin ghosts all his drives from
known working workstations doing the same job as the new workstation.

>> Not yet.  How much easier than 1.3.1 could it be?  Is PPP fill in the
>> blank scripts?  Which CD did you use? or did you ftp?
>Yes (to filling in the blanks! No files to edit, scripts to write, etc.
>It is/was the easiest ppp setup of anything I have used
>(Win3.1,95,OS/2,FreeBSD,or any other Linux distribution that I have
>used).

Cheapbytes here I come.  Guess I'll goto 2.0 now and keep one box 1.3.1
for GIMP.

>If Microsoft is the answer, the question should never have been asked!

You got that wrong:

Microsoft is the question, the answer is NO!!

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