> The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech > heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess > about it with it for days and weeks on end.
And that stability only lasts till you install a new piece of software only to discover that it stomps on .dll's that other programs needed and now your new program works great but several of your previously working programs are now broken. Software from Microsoft is the worst for pulling this crap. Their logic is "it is our software, we are only letting you operate a copy so we will tidy things up a bit and if it blows up any non-Microcrap software that you might be depending on ... all the better .. err, I mean, sorry". I am sure glad that Debian's system of dependancies, though not always perfect, gets us around problems like this and the developers and maintainers seem to be careful not to create too many situations like this. In the past when I had new software clobber existing stuff, a quick bug report seemed to fix it. It looks like 1.3 is a fine system. Thanks for the shadow password support. My thanks to all of the Debian crew for a job well done! George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
