[H-GEN] The Australian

[Adrian Bolzan]

At 09:45 30/06/98 +1000, you wrote:
>
>The US-based Byte Magazine last month had a cover story on Win98.  No
>real surprise there.  The surprise came when I read the article only to
>discover that the author did NOT recommend upgrading to Microsoft's
>latest mess (oops, "OS").
>
>Instead, the author gave a list of viable alternatives, which included
>failing to upgrade at all, going to Win NT or Linux.  If I recall
>correctly, Red Hat was the distribution noted.
>
>Cheers,
>Dave

I seem to remember that APC did a review on Win98 about 2 issues ago, as
well.  From their analysis, I felt that hardly anyone should upgrade from
win95, especially if they have win95 OSR2.  of course, people will still
sell it now that it is released, and even our chem department is spreading
the word about win98 site licences...what a broken bandwagon to jump on!  In
that same issue, i think, APC also talked about upgrading software etc,
coming to the conclusion that unles it is broke, or really doesn't serve
your purposes, then upgrading is unnecessary.  hopefully, some people out
there will heed this message!  especially for the case of win98.  

This message about not upgrading has, of course, already been mentioned in a
number of linux books regarding patches and kernel updates.  

adrian b.

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