The main difference between XP Home and XP Professional is Pro supports domains and Home does not. 2000 Server is a PIG, It's slow, a memory hog and NOT one of microsofts better products. 2000 workstation however is a great OS.



XP Home or Pro are not server products. So depending on what you are looking to do would depend on what OS to use.



XP is a nice product, but you may need to upgrade older software to run on it. It is snappy and boots quickly.

 

Make sure your machine is able to run XP,,at least a pentium 4, other wise

XP,,or other large OS's will be slugish

 

****..I have a pen III

 

I don't know, I was running XP Pro on a P3 500, and it was running fine, but then again, that was as a desktop, not a server, but my question is, if you are using the computer as a server, why not run linux? it tends to be smaller, is much much more stable, faster, and uses less memory, plus, you can join the club of linux users, and lovers, mmm, I need to get a stuffed tux, anyone know where I can get one, other than thinkgeek.com? the one there is ugly.

 

2K uses less memory than XP



It's faster then NT in 99% of the cases.

 

P III 500 will run XP just fine. It'll run decent on a Celeron 366 with 128mb of ram.

 

2K uses less memory than XP



It's faster then NT in 99% of the cases.[/quote]

2K workstation maybe... but 2K server? No way..



2K Server is a DOG on my Dual 450 Server at home and a barely adequate on our dual 800 PIII at work.



XP Pro flys on my 700 Celeron



I prefer NT 4.0 for a server. It's faster by far, Althought does had a couple of downfalls (not FAT32 support or USB) which is why I run 2K at home (Damn USB Scanner).

 

[quote=dac' date='Jul 22 2002, 03:52 AM]Then honestly you've got something seriously amiss at work and at home. 2k Server runs just fine a 450mhz P II's if you give it enough ram depending on it's workload. 2k scales much much better.

 

yeah, 2k has pretty good scaling, I have seen it run very well on a 486 with 64 megs of crap ram, someone made a bet that he couldn't do it, incidently, it installed, and ran with no problems at all. I have switched to XP Pro for my desktop because of the hardware support, and the support for multithreading my Dual cpus, plus, it is just prettier than 2k.

 

Ok I will post my comp specs..

HP Pen III 600 mgz

256 meg ram



10 gig hard drive<<<<<if any of you have an extra one working..I will buy I dont want to spend full price on a hard drive..next step is building/buying a new one.<<

CD burner



I have up graded alot on this comp..BUT I do need to do the hard drive..

This will be on a desktop (used) for a game server untill I get a good enuff player base to dish out for a dedicated server..



Alot of people who run UO servers use WIN2K so I was just seeing why..

Also I dont want to go out and buy WIN2K I was seeing If anyone can burn me one..Im getting XP pro for free..and will try it out..



I heard they both take up alot of ram..and this is one of my main concerns..

BUT im maxed out @ 256..and cant do anymore..and dont need something raping me of my ram..