>>16 you're right about the posix "box'o'shit" problem, though gobo linux is working toward solving that. It's quite frequent underwindows that I install applications under windows and they either don't uninstall completely, or they fuck up the registry. That's one of the appeals to me of NetBSD; pkgsrc is cross-platform (unlike FreeBSD's ports) and seems to work the easiest for cleanly installing and uninstalling software goes. This is good as the 2.6 linux kernel seems hopelessly unstable and flaky on every computer I've tried it on.
Btw, I'm
>>6 and I've re-installed XP to see if I can get optimal (>*nix) performance out of it. Where can I learn what services I can safely turn off? (in *nix you usually don't have to learn how to turn stuff *off*; the bitch is in learning how to get them turned *on*)