Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:05:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: james@wgold.demon.co.uk (James Mansion) Cc: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704202005.NAA08460@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <335A036C.56F8@wgold.demon.co.uk> from "James Mansion" at Apr 20, 97 12:52:12 pm
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> > NoThanks 4.0's stock ATI ??? video drivers can't change desktop font size > > without a re-boot. > > Aw, gee, its a tough one this. Can put up with NT's annoying need to > reboot after changeing IP settings etc or some of these screen > resolution issues in return for Excel and Word and VC++ and VJ++ and > Access and a decent choice of web browsers and Purify that I can afford? Unless you are talking about NT 3.51, you're wrong: it does not need a reboot, just an undocumented call into an undocumented DLL. Microsoft just likes to ask for reboots because their change flag doesn't have the necessary granularity to distinguish between "changes needing a reboot" and "simple changes" -- all they see are "changes". Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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