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For fun, I made some space on a hard drive in my dual P3 to see
how Windows zips along with SMP -- my most recent windows
OS is a copy of ME, can't see more than one processor.
Over a week later I was still trying to figure out how to set it up. It was installed and I could click on icons and such. I thought I'd be testing it, but actually it has been putting the screws to me. It takes about fifteen minutes to get to the point of saying it's beginning and install (after the first counterintuitive reboot). (Also, don't touch the keyboard or it will start the install all over again...) By this point I would have been basically done installing any linux around. It's very boring. It gives you such helpful hints as "installing devices." In the initial screen it installs drivers for hardware raid controllers I don't have, etc. The hardware identification is therefore somewhat boneheaded. Asks weird questions like "do you want to be part of a workgroup" and "which domain" after which it asks for a qualified user and password. There's no telling what it's after, and no useful help. Perhaps the documentation that comes with a normal installs makes some sense. But of course this all refers to MS perversions of such normal terms as "domain" or "network," so who could possibly know what they mean? First install was completely hosed. Tried to set up booting and did something that confused mouse/keyboard control, so it was unusable. Try again. The bootloader is not very bright... |
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Copyright 2003 by David Mark North