Can Linux beat XP in homes yet or NOT?

[Les Mikesell]

Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Secondly, please tell me how you manage to get XP running in half an
>> hour.  It takes far longer than half an hour on all the PCs I've seen to
>> prep the drive and install the software.  Never mind what comes after
>> the first boot of the barebones system.
> 
> Lot's of practice reloading it :-).  I've had to load it many times 
> for work and you get pretty good at it after a while.
> 
> As for Linux, I can't get F7 to run on my mail server and it's clone. 
>  It just won't boot.  I'm SOL.  I'm going to have to buy a new 
> computer for my mail server or go back to a Windows system like 
> Mercury.
> 
> If I had unlimited time I think I might try playing with BSD.  It 
> should run on my old mail server computers.

I'd give Centos 3.x a try on old machines.  It has the 2.4 kernel and is 
still supported with security/bugfix updates and administration is very 
similar to fedora.  And on a server, old versions are fine.

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   Les Mikesell
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