Which operating system is the best?

[Yonkey]

BTW, Yonkey --- LN is right ---- 98SE using Fat32 is limited to 137 gb hard drive but this limitation can be overcome with a controller card

It may be possible to override the limit, but FAT32 degrades in performance the larger the hard drive.

[Grundy]

FAT32 cant go higher than 32... where'd you get that 137 number from?  was that acheived by somehow creating virtual partitions or something?  




EDIT : TYPO

[Louisiana Night]

Those links might explain it(32gb=XP limitation).

If I'm wrong(misunderstood the Microsoft website), I KNOW I got a 40gb hardrive working in Win98(unfourtunatly, I'm not sure if I had multiple partitions. )

[dew7]

LN, you are not wrong -- the other people are not sure what they are talking about.  

My 98SE hard drive has 40 gigabytes on one partition.    

The limitations of Fat32 of 32 gb are on the NT source code (XP, 2000. NT) and not the 9x source code (98, 98SE, ME)

People the 32 refers to 32 kb not 32 gigabytes  

98SE supports up to 137 gigabytes except in the case of having a controller card when you can have more space

"The maximum possible number of clusters on a volume using the FAT32 file system is 268,435,445. With a maximum of 32 KB per cluster with space for the file allocation table (FAT), this equates to a maximum disk size of approximately 8 terabytes (TB)".

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006/EN-US/

[Louisiana Night]

That's good, because if the limit was 32GB, I must have been using NTFS in 98.

I just remembered, that my Linux hardrive(60GB) was using 98SE a few months ago(when I switched to XP, I decided to use it for Linux).

[dew7]

   Sounds good to me, LN

Waits reply from everyone else ---  

[Yonkey]

Hmm, the information I found about FAT32 not being able to support larger than 32GB had to do with Win2k/XP.  Every site I've seen recommends NTFS for those two.  But I know from experience, I had a 20GB FAT32 hard disk and it would take literally a day to defragment. Once I converted to NTFS, it took an hour at most.

So, you can use a huge HD for Win98, but it'll be extremely slow, and while it's possible to use FAT32 for XP, it's highly recommended that you use NTFS instead.  

[Grundy]

I must have been reading 2k/xp info aswell... since I thought FAT32 was limitied to 32gb....    

Anyway, agree with Neil, have fun using large FAT32 drives.... I never had more than 16GB on a FAT32, and even that sucked ass to defrag.  

[dew7]

Here we go again with a new security vulnerability that hits Windows --- again 98SE not affected  

http://eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/index.html

http://eeye.com/html/research/upcoming/20041115.html

Too bad Microsoft cannot seem to get it right when it comes to security -- yet another plug for open source
aka Linux  

[Louisiana Night]

I WANNA POST LINUX LINKS!! !! !! !!!!!!!!!!!!

*looks at threads topic*

Since XP is affected, I guess I better look at them.

Dew7, thanks for the info.

[dew7]

You're welcome, LN.  I do not mind if you post a few Linux links in this thread as long as the main topic centers on Windows.  

[racx_00]

Has anyone heard that blonde joke where she goes to buy curtains for her computer

And yes it is related to Windows

[Louisiana Night]

Has anyone heard about those cars that have Windows/PCs connected to many of the car's functions(though Microsoft claims it won't be connected to things like the brakes)?

*thinks he'd rather not have a car crash on it's own*

[dew7]

The horror of having everything connected by Microsoft Windows.  

[Louisiana Night]

They're starting to do it to home appliances too.

[dew7]

Unfortunate --- also have heard that Microsoft PDA's have passed Palm PDA's in sales  

[Louisiana Night]

Since this thread's been quiet for awhile, I decided to post a few links about what people think of a few OSs.

Microsoft_LinuxComparison

LinuxVersusWindows(closest thing I could find to "neutral")

FreeBSD_comparison

[dew7]

FYI:  Critical Update for Windows 98 Second Edition -- just go to Windows Update  

[Oldbushie]

Eventually Microsoft will make every electrical thing there is...

Just imagine the horror when everything fails at once. I guess it'll be like "The Day The Earth Stood Still".

[Oldbushie]

Win98SE has an update??
I thought they were never going to touch it again....
Unless you mean IE.