zima wrote:

superbeowulf wrote: i am using good old windows 98. not the second version. i want to upgrade majorly. when i got my computer i only had tops of 8 GB. and i still have that. i have so many glitches in my computer. my computer freezes every time i have 2 to 3 programs running at the same time. now i am waiting for vista to come out, not the beta version, but the final version. does anybody think that windows vista would be good investment or linux? and if linux then which one? p.s. : i don't know how to use linux at all. if there is a forum about only to linux, then could someone tell me. that would be appreciated. infact is there a forum for mac, linux, or any other special type of operating system separately designed for each of the operating system. i am just trying to learn about each system through other peoples intelligent conversation. well, reply to my message please. thanks! To answer your question...you don't risk much by trying some flavour of Linux. It's usually free after all. However since you have ancient computer this greatly complicates things. I would advise against trying Linux on your current machine - generally you need something that can run perfectly Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista to enjoy modern distributions of Linux (there are distros that are not very resource hungry and quite capable...but they usually aren't very user friendly, and those who are don't have big community. And community support is crucial in your casesince you're a beginner). So...wait with trying Linux untill you'll upgrade. You could for example buy machine, try Linux first and if doesn't satisfy (unlikelly IMHO...since you probably don't game anyway) you, buy Windows. When it comes to distrubution, my recommendation in most cases for some time is Ubuntu (search on Google, first link), for various reasons. Important ones in your case: totally free (and will always remain that way), active (major releases every 6 months (upgrade is automatic, so no worries here)) and very active and friendly community (probably the central hub of it is Ubuntuforums (search on Google, first link). superbeowulf wrote: dauodwa wrote: I use microft windows xp. as if you have 98'. major drag. I hat the illeagal operations thing. Its so damn annoying. You seriously need to upgrade, its 2006, havent you noticed?!  thanks for your support!(sarcasticly speaking.)you never answered my question. oh, well.if you don't answer the question then someone will.next time try to stick with the answering someone's question if they posted a question. You need to get used to that tone in his case... puppynut5 wrote: : Beauwolf, actually Windows 98 was the most stable operating system Microsoft has created up to this day. And Albatross I purchased a bunch of computer parts, just waiting until they ship and until I'm done with the training so I can put it together. As far as the processor goes I'm getting the AMD 64 4000+ w/San Diego Core (Helps the memory allocation) I'm in the process of pirating Windows XP 64 Bit. I was wondering if it was really that much better... I suppose you never headr about NT 3.51, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003... (also, I'm curious how will you explain that my Windows 2003 installation, year old (computer basically always on) still awaits its maiden crash...) BTW, Windows XP 64 Bit is better than XP...but it has nothing to do with it's "64 bitness". Plain and simple, XP is NT 5.1 version of NT/Windows, and XP 64bit...isn't. It's 5.2, the same as Windows 2003. So basically XP 64bit is 2003 discuised as mainstream XP. dauodwa wrote: I hate nt. I prefer XP.  You do realise that XP is NT (5.1/5.2(64bit), to be precise), don't you? Oh, excuse me, I forgot that you have ID view on the idea of "fact"...

thanks man. I really appreciate your reply.
although, I had hard understanding some of your ideas, I thik i will make the best of it.