"Going Forth" or "Run and Hide"

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At 01:48 AM 9/11/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/11/98 12:51:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, brotim@gte.net
>writes:
>
><< You:
> Actually I have a Freeware program that I believe was from ZDNet that
> checks Y2K. I have not had the courage yet to try it out.
>  >>
>I'am putting win 98 in my computer tomorrow.Will that take care of any y2k
>problems.Not to start anything but how do you guys look at useing software
you
>came across for free[you know what I mean] I can't say I never put
anything in
>my computer  that I didn't pay for that was given to me.

Bro Berger [brian_berger@juno.com] is but one of the many that tried to 
install it on a machine of his and it didn't take very well at all.... right?
I'm not sure if it was a beta release or final or what .. but there was much
agony over it.

Being somewhat charitable [though not thoroughly] I just sent him Red Hat
Linux 5.1 to him on in u.s.p.s. priority mail.  He just got it on this 
wednesday.  After looking into the instruction manual, he's sure it's a lot
more than what he's used to (I'll admit that) with an Windows install of
some type.  One thing it forces someone to do is *know* your hardware as it
forces you to split up your HD into multiple partitions before allowing the
installation to continue.  But, when you're done, you've got a fully 
operational multi-user multi-tasking computer with internet connectability
that'll run rings around most any Windoze machines that people commonly
own.  If you got a 386 or 486 that limps with Win95, put Linux on it and
see it perform easily as well as a Pentium processor (through about 133 MHz)
running Gatesware.

There's definitely work involved in configuring the machine... but when you're
done, it's a highly functional machine.  Well worth the effort.

Now... 'bout Win98....

I've heard basically two things about the Win98 release....

   1) if you bought the Win98 upgrade ... you'll very likely have trouble
      with the install that's not too repairable.  Lotsa folks haveing
      lotsa problems with the upgrade.

   2) if you buy a machine with Win98 pre-installed on it, it'll more than
      likely will be a good thing and not cause much harm.

So...I'd personally hesitate to install it on any existing Win95 machines
until they make a 2nd release of the Win98 OS upgrade that fixes many of
de bugs that were introduced by the first.

Bro Tyler 
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