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choasforages:
hmmm, funcionabilty, like what kinds of things are you looking to do/do with xp right now, and for crashing, i have linux machines with 15+ days of uptime and they still run like a fresh boot.

WaWAR_FA:
like be able to host my shoutcast broadcasts.

be able to serve pages

be able to install a probram onto my computer without wading through 20 different steps.  

im lazy i want plug-and-play programing.  i dont have time from crap.

choasforages:
hmmm, theres always the unix version of shoutcast, or icecast, never played with either of them

for serving pages, linux/apache is one of the best and most popular webserving solution's out there, and it works great

simple one clicks games, like what kinda games are we talking about here. all the quakes are supported nativly, so is RTCW, and they all run fast and more stable under linux then windows, there are a few others

and for installing software its not twenty steps its just a few

heres an example of installing software using a terminal, you see, alot of software for linux is in the sourcecode form, its really only a few commands to install software from source code, and when its done, its compiled for your system, which can lead to some insane optimazations that make things run fast as hell. also if you go with SuSe, Redhat, or mandrake, all three of those distibutions offer a package format called a .rpm file. easy to install and theres even several gui's for installing rpm files.

o and for windows games, WineX might be your best answer if theres no native port, it works great for me and i only had to change 4-5 configuration options, and i changed them for mainly asthetical reasons. well have fun

WaWAR_FA:
i want to be able to click a buton labeled install and not have to worry about compiling the kernel.

i play Ultima Online.  linux take UO at all?

choasforages:
hmmmm, i don't know about about UO, i never got into UO/*it costs money*/ though, WineX might be able to help you, what WineX is, is a fork of Wine, which is a win32 compatiblity layer. WineX has a bunch of features that wine doesnt'/not allowed to. as for one click installs, at one point i even had the windows version of AIM working under linux with it.

 i have done that before. i would also recomend getting a book on linux and reading through it a bit before you install and try to rember a few odd commands.
o and heres the transgaming website, from what i have read, you might have to go through a bit of directy creation for ultima.
http://www.transgaming.com/gamepage.php?gameid=139

o and by the way, a comment on WineX, its not a product, its a subscribtion that enables you download the product, sounds kinda odd. but the going rate is about $5 per month, and you can buy in blocks of 3 months, and what your actally paying for is devlopment of WineX, it sounds odd but it works

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