What is an Operating System (was Electronics Barn closing)

Rumor has it that Fred Cisin may have mentioned these words: Erm... not quite. 2K is NT5, XP *is* NT5.1, so the "evolution" of XP from 2K is very slight - mainly in more security holes, tighter yet integration of IE, the candy-coated GUI (which you can revert to 2K-like, tho it ain't easy to find all the different animation settings without TweakUI) and the ability to play a lot more games (mostly in the 3D realm). ... Oh, and in more memory usage. I can trim most unnecessary services (for me) in Win2K so about 58-60Meg is used on boot - IIRC, the best I ever got XP down to is around 90-95Meg, with comparable services running. [[ Contrast that with my LinuxFromScratch 4.0 install on my laptop - with comparable services (DHCP enabled, etc.) running, X running, animated background (xfishtank) and 1 terminal window open (on boot, so I didn't fiddle with it) -> 23Meg used. This includes apache, PostgreSQL & ColdFusion 4.5. On boot with no GUI (but all services) -> 15 Meg. My freshly compiled LFS 5.1.1 with no services running: 9.2 Meg. My wife's Shuttle running standard RedHat 9 & Nautilus for the GUI - a touch over 100Meg. It goes to show that enduser linux is sometimes no better now than enduser Winders.]] Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | A new truth in advertising slogan sysadmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy... zmerch(a)30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"