FreeBSD isn't UNIX, rather a clone of UNIX.

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UNIX like = to all intents and purposes "UNIX", compared to GNU/Linux, FreeBSD is a UNIX.

FreeBSD is a UNIX system, if you want to call it UNIX-like thats fine by me.

@paul: So it's spelled wrong?  People even spell my name (beta) wrong, It doesn't bother me much, I live with it.  CHILL my friend. 8)

Well we're off-off-offtopic now.

The Linux discussion was actually on topic as Linux is a "...non XP OS'?...".

The correct spelling of paulpthingumopolis's nickname is clearly offtopic however.

Lock the topic quick!!!

Well here's news flash for those of ya who only care for 3dfx cards and their legacy, for which I don't blame you none.
Win2000 = winNT 5.0
WinXP = winNT 5.1
soooo, the core is the same. It's just some other c r a p M$ is shoving down our throats

I've been using win2K for 2 yrs now (since I got my 1-st and only comp pretty much). I am still to see a blue screen, although I did reinstall twice (once to remove the damage done by viruses that Norton let through, second HDD upgrade). Take a good look the next time you DL something, be it a driver or a game - there is only 1 application that i've seen that'd run on winXP and not on win2K. That program is a windows XP tweaker.

Now down to tech specs
There is no need to build separate drivers for win2K and XP, why should there be an OS-specific processor? (SPARCs aside). Why I use 2K and not other windows - it is stable, it is supported, I did not pay for it, it updates, and winXp crashed after 10 minutes on me. I guess I am the lucky one to have a corporate edition of win2K, so it doesn't even ask for serial key.  That said aside, I DO NOT WANT all the 150 "improvements" (NOTE THE BRACKETS) in XP. The firewall deserves the name of a fireHOLE based on its functionality. I HATE WHQL - early versions of XP did not allow non-WHQL certified drivers (aka betas, 3-rd part, etc, etc) to be installed. Ok, enough XP ranting

I have a friend with an AMD AXP 2500+ (Barton), 512 Mb DC Ram (DDR333), nVidia GeForce MX 440 64 mb RAM, ASUS A7-blah-blah mobo. He has both OSes - 2K and XP

advantages of 2K
less CPU/RAM/HDD hungry (166/70/800 VS 300/254/1250, RAM = how much it will take if there is 512 Mb)
much more stable (than Xp at least)
same old 98 look
apparently many corporations use them for workstations and as small servers

advantages of XP
loads nearly 2x as fast
you get a 2-3 FPS gain in games

disadvantages are the inverses of advantages for the OS compared with

We tested the system with UT2003 demo (that was back in the day), Serious Sam, Morrowind, Black and White (all settings at the highest, 1024x768x32, AA and AF full on if avaliable)

There was not any significant performance gain for winXP over 2K - the difference was under 5 FPS for all 4 games, needles to say that was about 5% difference. On the other hand I was running win2k and edonkey(a very well known application to crunch resources as carrots) for a full month before restarting (I was out of town), while my friend's machine would crash 1-2 times a day... Hope this part-rant answered the question

Oh, and BTW, can anyone check to which email account dsolom3 is registered to? It is me, I think I deleted the email with password by an accident and cannot remeber the one of many mailboxes I have that I used for this forum... Thanks

funny, still runnin'  win98? i guess you aren't considering installing winnt or even winxp but here's some interesting points for the upkeepers of win98:

- win2k has a way more efficient ram managment w/ less produced datash*t.
- winxp is even better, as coming w/ improved managment for ram greater than 512mb.
- NEWER & BETTER DRIVERS

well, no real points for voodoo users, i guess..


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nice.. you know, you can disable or change the standard-look of winxp

Yep, the only existing WinXP Installation I ever had (bundeled on a Notebook) will remain the only one.

It's late and I don't want to post the 4 Pages worth of Privacy and Security risks involved with WinXP, let alone the permanent "calling home" symptome, nicely enforced by MicroSoft.

In fact, I think nothing pushed the Linux world more forward, than WinXP and its "eat it or die" Style of trying to enforce unwanted Security risks onto its Users.

I have only 3 of 24 Systems left running Windows at all, in the near future it will be reduced to 2.

Win98SE was the best Gaming Platform to ever exist, superseeded only by Win2k after a while.

WinXP could have been the next, better step, but MicroSoft chose to include too many Trojan horses to enforce their monopoly, thus Win2000 SP4 will remain the last Windows OS I have ever used.