Those old Toshiba's were virtually bullet-proof! I have a Thinkpad 600e that won't die, and a P3 Tecra that's in equal shape.

And likewise, I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a 1600x1200 display that I refuse to give up.

Now yes. Years ago...they were a bit different.

Is that so? YUM makes perfect sense - YellowDog Update Manager - as in the Update Manager from YellowDog Linux. Seems like a logical naming choice to me.

Red Hat is Linux. End of story. What Red Hat says, everyone (that matters) does.

First off - thanks for the glass8 thought. I'm going to try that on my Windows 8 machines.

Second thought - Currently my policy at home (and home based users) is upgrade 8.x to 10, and leave 7 in place for now.

ME had an issue if you mixed drivers, since they could trample each other (ME supported DOS drivers, Windows 9x drivers, and Windows 2K drivers, which all didn't play nice with each other). There was also the issue with data loss if your HDD supported caching, which was later patched. If you avoided mixing drivers (so probably didn't keep that old Sound Blaster 16 in use OR do pure DOS mode stuff, which ME didn't like doing any more anyway), and got the HDD cache issue solved, it was a solid system in my experience.

Depends on what GP means as the same hardware. On my P3 laptop with 1GB of RAM? XP is faster. On an i7? Windows 7 (and newer) is much faster then XP.

If they do something like that on the server side there will be a lot of negative feedback...And a lot of money moving (back?) towards Red Hat, Oracle, and IBM.

So that you can do this:

telnet slashdot.org 80

Nor is there any need to for the majority of people.

Last I heard there were no plans for a new FX chip.

For shame too, because most of these cards are pretty good at doing science.

Except the BSD world is free to use launchd or SMF if they so choose. And I seriously doubt that FreeBSD will change anything like that anytime soon. Look - how long did it take them to get the package management change going?

I don't see how syntax highlighting and compiler messages have anything to do with an IDE. When I'm building to code to see if changes work, I regularly switch C compilers depending on the current platform. I haven't quite seen an IDE that works with MIPSPro....