Re: [TP560] Re: osr2 on 560

["Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@loop.com>]

On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:24:57 -0500, richard wrote:

>On Sun, 14 Dec 97 20:46:30 , "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury@loop.com> wrote:
>
>>If you're really worried about fragmentation and cluster size, you might consider
>>OS/2, or Linux, with the HPFS and EXT2 file systems, respectively.
>
>As far as I know, neither OS/2 nor Linux runs Microsoft Word 97 or a few other
>programs I need for work
>
>>And I think NT has controllable cluster size, too.
>
>I think you're right.  NT seemed a more complex and unwieldy program which needs
>a lot of resources to operate.  If memory serves, the supposed advantages are
>increased stability (this does not seem to be the case), security (which seems a
>proxy for "users have a hard time running unauthorized programs") and file
>system.  Disadvantages include driver and power management support which is not
>as good as win95.
>
>Is this right?
>
>
That sounds about right.  If you need driver and power management, and
controllable cluster size, consider Linux or OS/2.  Both have those abilities,
plus they are networkable, have been around for a LONG time (at least regular
UNIX has!), and there is good APM support for both OS/2 since 2.1, and also
Linux.  There are also other good things about it, but I will explain later.

Paul