Re: OT: What OS

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

> After 3 years the local childrens nursery has collected enough
Tesco
> vouchers to get a new PC! It will be a Celeron 1GHz; 128MB memory;
> 20GB drive. We can get it with either W98, W2000 or XP
Professional.
> Any views on which OS to go for?

IMO:

Win98 is easy to reinstall when the kids break it, and is compatible
with
everything.  It's also not resource intensive.

Win2k and XP pro can be secured down a lot easier to stop the kids
breaking
it, but will require more work to set it up initially, and will be more
intensive (especially on the HDD which will lose 2GB instantly with
XP).

Of course, being a nursery, the kids won't be very good at breaking
software
yet, so I suggest Win2k or XP.  It depends who will administer it, and
how
much experience they have.

Andy

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