Oh…the Windows 2000 box rebooted itself during a power outage and I manually shutdown’ed the Windows XP box cause I had to move it… In the worst case (that happened only a few times), you have to stop a service and turn it back on. Most softwares don’t need Windows to be restarted anymore. The first questions that might come to your mind are: you didn’t install new softwares during 12 months? no windows updates? Some of you may be surprised by my uptimes. Sure this doesn’t happen under Linux: there are only a few linux gamers. They use beta graphic card drivers and 10 millions tweaks. Most people that have to restart Windows these days are big gamers. Ok, let me clarify this: I don’t play games. I got both Windows 2000 and XP running for 12 months (on my desktop machine that I use ~10 hours a day). I’m a bit tired of hearing people say “Linux is so stable, Windows is not!”. Sure Windows XP can do all of that too, but the point is that boot time isn’t as important as so many people imply. If you choose well supported hardware you can also have it hybernate or go into standby while you’re away, the power consumption will be negligible and with a simple press of the power you can be back at the login screen in less than half a minute. If you’re worried about getting hacked, which could happen to any OS, just run “/etc/init.d/internet stop” if you’re goin to leave it for a while and then run “/etc/init.d/internet start” when you get back. Also the nice thing about Linux is that you don’t have to turn it off before going and turn it back on when you come back, its stable enough to run for a very long time without crashing. In case you’re also taking into account the time that it takes for KDE or Gnome to start, that isn’t boot time for Linux itself since using something like Icewm, XFCE or BackBox can remove that delay. I can’t agree with your statistics, as far as Windows XP goes its faster than Win98 and Linux because it uses multi-threading and the other two don’t but I have used Windows 98 and Linux and the boot speed on Linux was faster, even if only by a little (using a Celeron 466 w/ 128 Mb of ram at the time). If you decide to build up your critical infrastructure on FreeDOS / GNU DOS, prepare to be sued… The SCO Group claims to own the copyrights, patents and trade secrets related to ideas and methods in COMMAND.COM. – Last, but not least: the legal uncertainties. – Beware: the TCO of FreeDOS / GNU DOS is so high because of the painful transition process from MS DOS, and the need to find highly qualified staff with the skills needed in order to properly handle the relative complexity of FreeDOS / GNU DOS. – How about hardware support? Will a consumer be able to simple plug-and-play with their rebadged taiwanese $2 USB-almost-compatible webcam? – Will Wordperfect Corporation/Novell/Corell/Whoever port Wordperfect to FreeDOS / GNU DOS? – Will they produce the strange warning message that DrDOS produced when starting Windows 3.1? After the install completes, we don't require the ISO any longer and can boot directly into our installed image by running: qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -hda dos.You know… they are beginning to build up moment in early adopters who may or may not fulfil specific niche requirements by using them but there are a lot of things to consider like too:
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