However, Linux can do some things on a 386 while NT will barely run.
I would expect that NT may have some bugs that cause, say, divide by
zeros on certain hardware. It's very difficult for Linux to have a
bug last very long. I have never had any problems running Linux but
I stil can't get it to install on some machines because of crappy
distributions. I'll do it manually soon enough...
>
>I wouldn't be so sure. Linux will stress a system far more than
>W3.11/WFWG/W95 will. I've experienced a number of systems that would
quite
>happily run BGP (Bill Gate's Products) that wouldn't reliably run
Linux.
>Typically the problem is memory that is marginal and is quite often
seen as
>compile errors (especially rebuilding kernels).
>
>However, I must admit that I never have problems with stability of
either
>of linux or NT....
>
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