From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18728 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2003 17:08:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18713 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2003 17:08:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2003 17:08:25 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190PBA-00041n-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:04:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190P9S-0003v4-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:02:22 +0200 From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: ls Question + bug? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: <1gkpizqjc0bou.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> References: <17x3k3weekv90.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> <5.2.0.9.2.20030401070325.029cedb0@pop3.cris.com> <20030401154649.GD5860@bitstream.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.3.1 X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00083.txt.bz2 * Peter Davis (03-04-01 17:46 +0100) >>> XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. >> >> Hardly. >> >> NT 4 and 2000 have always been perfectly stable and reliable for me, >> running for days and weeks on end without trouble. They have additional >> (subjective) benefit of not having garish, cartoonish GUIs, though 2K >> shows some tendencies. Fortunately, most of the silly stuff can be turned >> off. > > NT4, 2000 and XP are all moderately stable, but none of them is what I > would call "rock solid". Me, too. I'd only call XP "rock solid". > I've only had XP for less than a month, but I've hung the OS several times, > and hung Explorer, which is really interesting. I've been using XP since September 2001. I'm not using Explorer[1], just SpeedCommander. If the Explorer hangs, I kill it and restart it via Task Manager - doesn't hurt the OS. > It's certainly possible to do this with NT and 2K also. Easily. Okay, let's kill this thread. It's becomming quite offtopic... Thorsten [1] Okay it's the shell, but not for specific things -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/