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Which was running XP Pro for a few years and it was painfully slow something like a K6 2 450 AMD CPU and 256 MEG of RAM with a 4 MEG Video card and the poor thing was painfully slow running XP which really it was never designed to do in the first place it was just pushed into that roll as a backup computer by it's owner when he got a new XP Box and he insisted that both boxes run the same OS.

Well he traded it in on something newer as even he eventually got feed up with the thing he could turn it on walk away cook dinner and then after he had eaten and washed up the thing just might be running so he could backup his main machine.

The first thing that I did to it was wipe the HDD then load Debian onto the thing and he saw it running a few days latter. So he insisted on seeing it boot up, it took about 2.5 minutes from no power to fully functional and he couldn't believe his eyes. Then he insisted that I must have upgraded it dramatically because it was never that fast in it's life. It's still exactly the same machine with the exception that the CD RW was removed and used in his new box and I just threw a CD Reader into the thing and left it like that.

Then to prove a point I stuck another HDD into it and Dual Booted it to Win 98SE which is what it originally had installed Debian is still faster on it than Windows 98 and now I'm being asked

AHow Long did I take to install all that software onto the machine? It's just the standard Debian Server install off 5 CD's &

B Why haven't I bothered to tell him of the superior abilities of Linux over Windows?

Personally because he runs a business with one dedicated Windows Program that has been specially written for his industry and he has to run it that was my first option for his limited needs but I had to settle for 98 and then XP to support his dedicated program as this person isn't the type to bother to learn how to use something. Currently I'm getting monstered because he got an error message that some DLL didn't open when he shut down one of the computers. He didn't bother to actually look at which DLL it was only that he got an error message and because it hasn't reappeared doesn't mean that the machine is working properly and that was just a glitch when he either opened or shut down that particular machine I'm supposed to have an answer for an unknown DLL and why he was told that it didn't open.

OH well I'll find some nasty job that I don't want to do and get him to pull some cable through for me as he's a electrocution so I'll make work for the inconvenience that hes caused me.

On most hardware that's how any Linux works faster with fewer resources and on this one I used a server product mainly because I was too lazy not to install all the available options. The hardest part of starting it is typing in your user name & password to allow the OS to open. It's controlling a Child Domain on my main LAN and has isolated that part of the LAN quite nicely thank you very much. So I can now place a WiFi Access point there and have no chance of allowing access to any other part of my LAN that is potentially vulnerable and all that anyone who manages to break in will find are several Nix Boxes and a WiFi Testing Point for any NB's that I happen to be testing after repairs here.

Col