Lester Caine wrote:

>But why should I have to spend time ( and money ) on that - even if
>Microsoft would supply a small user like me. W98SE works fine once you
>install it with the relevent updates and applications. And installation
>via a ghost is easy even with differing hardware. Neither of the quoted
>links provide a version of windows that will work on VIA ITX cards or
>fanless processor systems they are just knobbled XP with all the
>infrastructure that is simply not needed. The comment was "Why would you
>use buggy software as a server" - I am simply saying that W98SE *IS*
>running 24/7 for me and not giving me any cause to spend time and money
>replacing it. I have to buy XP licences at twice the cost of 98 but I
>install 98 and two fingers to Microsoft ;)
>

Lester,

What I want to say when I ask "Why someone will run any server on an
Win98 Machine" has nothing to do to the fact of win98 be buggy. I can't
tell you since I jump from Win95 OSR2 to WinXP on my machine, and the
others that I use at my office was Win NT 4.0 and Win2000, just used
Win98 at customer sites for short periods of time, so can't say if it is
better or worse than Win95, I always faced Win98 as a Win95 with a bunch
of bugs corrected (Win98 = Win95 Patched).

My concern reagrds to security !

Win9x has no security at all.

Can't think a Win9x as a file server, or database server even for a
small number of users.

But if it fit your needs.. stick with it.

As the old saying:
If it's not broken don't fix it ! ;-)

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br