[Coco] Recommendations & Assistance

[Ed Orbea]

In my earlier message I wrote:
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> My Wndows XP system suffered the blue-screen-o-death.
>
> I used it for a DW3 / DW4 Server
> I used VCC and the Winimage tool to create .dsk files that we
> ultimately used on a real CoCo3
> In your opinions, do I (a) re-install WIndows XP (b) an older version
> of Windows (i.e. 98) or (c) switch or a Linux distro?
> If I switch to Linux, what is the consensus regarding the distro
> (ubuntu, mint, suse, etc.)?
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Obviously I did not explain myself properly.
The MBR of the hard drive got 'trashed".
I can recreate the MBR but will be replacing the actual drive. I can either
reload XP (the end of life for XP doesn't bother me since the only thing
that I usually update is Java) or load and older version of WIndows (98,
ME, NT4.0) or a newer version (Vista, WIn7) or use Linux.
Learning Linux is not the issue as the only use for this system will be as
a dedicated DW server.

So, for a dedicated DW Server, XP or Linux or ???

Thanks