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Hi there
As servers Linux are without equal -- everything Pparks1 says is true -- in general the only time you need to re-boot a Linux box is if you physically change the MB or if you want to install a new version.
To get back to the point of the thread --if people want to continue to use XP --so be it but don't expect newer hardware to work with it forever.
By all means use older hardware that still functions on say an XP Virtual Machine -- but to say W8 is horrible / waste of time etc before it's even in Beta just displays IMO a pitiful amount of ignorance apart from other shortcomings which I probably wouldn't be allowed to mention on this Forum (or any other decently moderated Forum either).
Most people who have actually taken the trouble to perservere with W8 instead of giving up after the first boot have been quite surprised by it's stability and general snappy performance.
Most Linux "haters" either have never taken the trouble to understand even the simplest of command line commands and probably trying to use it for totally inappropriate purposes. It's NOT windows even if you can customize a GUI to look almost like Windows.
If you have a load of servers out there -- well it's money being spent that doesn't need to be -- I do use a W2K3 server or two.o but compare the licensing costs of a number of these compared with say 50 or more Linux servers.
'Nuf Said.
Cheers
jimbo