Linux loses, XP wins!
After another hardware battle, I discovered my 1-wire hub had a failed port so I had to reconfigure my wiring, dropping my solar sensor. Will get back to that another day. More importantly, I had decided to make the switch to Linux on my old T23 thinkpad that's running my Java software. It is maxed out at 512mb ram(!!!) and has a 20 GB drive. After playing around with Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) on my destop with great success, I decided to replace the slow XP on the T23 with a Linux system. Should be perfect - right? Old, small slow machine - just where Linux shines. Well - NOT! Something about the T23 that doesn't like Linux. Totally locked up after about 2- 3 hours running often dropping network connectivity before that. Also, poor USB performance eliminated running my webcam. So back to a clean install of a minimal XP SP2. It flies compared to the Linux setup, webcam and all. Ah well, conventional wisdom is not always wise -
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Linux loses and xp wins: i
Linux loses and xp wins: i will not completely agree with the statement. Because i used linux for ccna, ccie certification, ccda certification and i got linux best for these because xp has not some features. But this is true Linux also has not all features. So linux and xp both are best but have not all features for all tools.