Another Builder - O/S Choice?

[beano500]

My PC has fallen over once two often and I'm deciding to upgrade.

Ordered a built box which seemed good value only to find it's out of stock, so I am costing out some upgrades.

What's the main difference between XP Home and XP Professional? (Apart from the price!) I think I only want Home, but just checking....

Win 98 Luddite

[Podie]

Not much between them really... Pro has a few more networking bits and bobs, but most home users should be OK with it.

[docevi1]

www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

You'll be fine with Home I would have thought.

[BliarOut]

Home sucks... Can't set security on files without being in safe mode and the networking is blox... Then again, I'm a network engineer so I wouldn't like it if they take the axe to the networking

If you ever need to go near a domain, you will get a nasty shock when you find out what's been stripped out of the networking side.

Only actual difference is the registry

[Pigeon]

www.debian.org

[zumbruk]

BliarOut said:

Home sucks... Can't set security on files without being in safe mode and the networking is blox... Then again, I'm a network engineer so I wouldn't like it if they take the axe to the networking If you ever need to go near a domain, you will get a nasty shock when you find out what's been stripped out of the networking side. Only actual difference is the registry

Actually, the "networking" is just fine. What you're talking about is the evil bletcherous bag of SmallNFloppy's garbage doomain model, which is absent from Home. And all the better for it. Not all the world is a SmallNFloppy doomain, you know. Fortunately.

[Mr E]

Pigeon said:

www.debian.org

What he said.

Although I tend to prefer Slackware or Suse.....

[plotloss]

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[beano500]

Thanks for the tips guys. And the links.

One other thing.

On some of my previous builds I've partitioned the HD. Somewhere I got it in my head that, amongst other benefits, it was quicker to open files when you had smaller partitions. Also keeping O/S and data separate makes sense.


What are the pros and cons?


(Am going up to a much bigger HD (160MB Sata) )

[beano500]

And who's just ordered a Socket 478 CPU and a 775 mobo!

[wedg1e]

I'd go for Win 2000 myself. Looks a bit less like a kiddie's toy and isn't really as much of an ar5e to set-up as some would have you believe.
I have XP Pro knocking about somewhere, but having seen it on the PCs at work I stuck with W2K.

[simpo two]

wedg1e said:

I'd go for Win 2000 myself. Looks a bit less like a kiddie's toy

XP Pro does a super job for me. You can always turn the fluffy kittens mode off and select the 'silver' colour scheme which looks much nicer IMO.