[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

[James Roberts]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> It's been a long long time since I saw Windows XP crash by itself.

Interesting. We see quite a lot of crashes (we have to deal with several 
a day) across a few hundred machines, but admittedly, not many of these 
are irrecoverable (ie blue screening) given decent hardware.

> Windows XP these days is a remarkably stable operating system.

It's less bad, yes. Nearly as good as NT4. Vista is less stable at the 
moment.

> Oh, and security updates can be set to automatically be installed.

But don't do this except on a home machine.

J
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