Back! I'm back... (now WinNT hit-and-run) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Sep 1998

However, Linux can do some things on a 386 while NT will barely run.
I would expect that NT may have some bugs that cause, say, divide by
zeros on certain hardware. It's very difficult for Linux to have a
bug last very long. I have never had any problems running Linux but
I stil can't get it to install on some machines because of crappy
distributions. I'll do it manually soon enough...
...

I wouldn't be so sure. Linux will stress a system far more than
W3.11/WFWG/W95 will. I've experienced a number of systems that would  quite
...
 happily run BGP (Bill Gate's Products) that
wouldn't reliably run  Linux.
...
 Typically the problem is memory that is marginal and is
quite often  seen as
...
 compile errors (especially rebuilding kernels).

However, I must admit that I never have problems with stability of  either
...
 of linux or NT....

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