Re: Linux

    Hi Patti & everyone,
    I hope this dosen't bug too many folks on the list but it appears that
several are running ME so maybe it will evoke responses that will help
several people.
    My ME freezes/crashes on a regular basis. I typically have five I.E.
browser windows open, three or four notepad, Outlook, & open & close 1st
Page (HTML editor) & WS_FTP Pro. If I open too much of anything else at the
same time, I run out of resources. I run out anyway after so many instances
of opening & closing programs, since windoze dosen't recover memory.......
    I have a Pentium III 600 on a Tyan motherboard with 256 megs of ram, & a
Matrox G-400 Dual-Head video card (part of the problem). I built this
machine myself, after paying $1,750 for one from a local computer shop that
crashed CONSTANTLY (with the same ME).
    Part of the problem is that ME automaticaly runs some crap in the
background that I have NO IDEA what is about.....& can't find any way to
turn them off. (there is a loooong list in "running tasks")
    I'm running a program called RamPage that allows me to free up ram, &
that helps sometimes. I also have the virtual memory set to a large amount
(I forget the exact size), & minimun & maximum set the same to create an
automatic swap - which a comp. guru told me to do (this has helped on every
windoze machine I have).
    I would love to hear from anyone with ideas on how to help cure the "out
of resources" problem.
    TIA,
          Paul Angel
 BTW, I might mention that I have a dual-processor motherboard - at the time
I bought it I read somewhere that ME supported the dual-processor but now I
find out that it dosen't ........<aarrgg>   (so I'm running the single) I
want to go to Win. 2000 but THAT dosen't support the dual-head video & I
LOVE that feature. Besides since I found out that Gates supports handgun
control inc. & other anti-freedom groups I *won't* give him any more of my
hard-earned cash! I guess OS's are a no-win situation.....(unless you have
*years* of training & experience building/running computers).

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----- Original Message -----
From: "psalmon" <psalmon(at)cafes.net>
To: "Lisa Bradshaw" <zibbler(at)mediaone.net>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: RE: Linux


> Lordy Lisa, what the heck are you running that system resources get that
> low. I even have a full UPS database running which is a huge program and
> resource hog and my system never goes below 70% ! Actually you can't run
the
> UPS software/database program below 70% resources.
>
> As for Linux, I have a dual boot computer at the moment. Yes, WinME is on
> one partition and RedHat 7.0 Linux is on the other. I had to totally
> uninstall WinMe, partition the drive and install Linux first and then
Linux.
> DON'T EVEN TRY it the other way around. If you have the money to get a
> second computer and play around with Linux, thats the way to go. I have
> Gnome for Linux and I use Star office. This is makes it a pretty easy
cross
> over from the Windows environment, but there is alot more "under the hood"
> that you will NEED to know. Yes, I did it the hard way by making this
> computer a dual boot, but I learned alot while doing it. If you have time
to
> play, its alot of fun to learn Linux.
>
> As for WinMe, I actually think its more stable than  Win98 ? I have had NO
> crashes on this puter since the day I bought it on Dec 28, 2000 and that
> includes it being a dual boot too. I have another computer with just WinMe
> installed and it hasn't crashed since the day I got that one, back on June
> 14, 2001.
> NOW ON THE OTHER HAND, my husbands  HP with Win98 crashes at least 3 times
a
> day or I should say within 1 hour of him being on it. I have no idea why,
> and when I hear the cursing I immediately know what has happened :-)
>
> Now don't get me wrong here, I am NOT a big fan of WinMe at all and I
think
> Win98 is better, I just wished they stayed with Win98 and enhanced it a
bit
> more.
>
> Patti
>
>
>

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