[arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

Heiko Baums lists at baums-on-web.de
Wed Jul 25 05:06:20 EDT 2012


Am Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:22:28 +0200
schrieb Nelson Marambio <nelsonmarambio at gmx.de>:

> that is / was right for Win 98 or Win ME. Having an exception error 
> which was caused by damaged registry files always meant a reset to
> state short after the OS-installation, so all the drivers and
> programs had to be re-installed.
> 
> But my XP-Installation ran more than five years stable though being 
> "stressed" by many test-installations of applications. Does not mean 
> that XP or Win 7 is going to make an admin feel happy - but yes,
> there was an improvement, at least for the users.

But that was not such an improvement, maybe Windoze XP ran slightly
longer than 3 months. But it's still not what I call stable. And it
still is a PITA, particularly when it comes to administration. And it
still gets unstable because of the (more and more growing) registry.

Heiko


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