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  From: Jeremy Ervine <omegasys@adam.com.au>
  To  : linux <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:50:40 +1030

RE: Linux as an NT Server replacement

>The two features I'm looking for in Win 2-0 O-Oh workstation edition are
>Plug and Pray support, and USB support. Other than that, I couldn't be
>bothered installing huge ammounts of bloatware. The first is a particular
>problem with NT4.0 now in that I'm having to mix and match hardware that
>gets Random IRQs and DMAs assigned to it, but has a limited set of options
>in the drivers.

After trialing Win2k B3, and RC2, I tried a HP USB Scanner, a Kodac DC265
USB Digital Camera, and a cheapo USB webcam, and as soon as I tried to
install the driver for it when win2k picked it up ..."Windows NT does not
have USB support, please install windows 98" !


>I think there'll be another DOS based Windows yet. Theres still too many
>legasy programs out there, and light hardware that people will want to use
>the features of Win2K on.


If not, all those poor win9x users are gonna be stuck for all iternity with
... "this program has performed an illegal operation and will now be shut
down" (of course, unless they switch to linux)!


--
Jeremy