Never ceases to amaze

[Patrick Thurmond]

	Well with WinXP most things can be installed with it turned on
and without ever rebooting. The only rebooting I have seen with
peripherals are those with multiple part installs (like dual modem/nic
cards) and a few rare items. XP is the first WinOS that is flexible like
this. As for OS/2, I have no idea how that is supposed to relate to
Linux, but I have never used it before (and doubt I will ever get the
chance). Up until recently Microsoft has been known for dragging its
feet on features, because it was cheaper for them to develop that way
and up until recently they could get away with it without any major
competition. 
	As for my writing style, I just am a very long-winded writer and
know the value of paragraph organization to the eyes of a reader!!!!

-Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: david nicol [mailto:whatever at davidnicol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:47 AM
To: Patrick Thurmond
Cc: 'Jim Herrmann'; 'KCLUG'
Subject: RE: Never ceases to amaze

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 01:52, Patrick Thurmond wrote:

> 	On the other hand I have been playing with Linux for about 4 or
> 5 years and good solid plug and play has only been available (from
what
> I have seen) on Linux for about a year. Up until about RedHat 7 or 8
> have I seen any real no fuss plug and play with device variety on any
of
> my systems. Before 7 my system was pretty much hosed if I had to
change
> any major components. Linux is making its way to the top and seems to
be
> progressing quicker than Windows in the last few years but I am sorry
to
> say this... There are just some things WINDOWS is still BETTER at.

As I understand it, OS2 was demonstrating hot plug-and-play of multiple
identical cards in the early nineties.  Microsoft still requires a
rebooting.  I don't know if hotplugging anything other than PCMCIA cards
and disk drives works with linux kernels or not.

I'm also stunned at the similarity between Patrick's and Jim's writing
styles.