Wesley1357
Limp Gawd
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is it good, is it really good? how is vista? what about the insides, is it faster, stable, will you buy it when it is for sale?
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qb4ever said:>>>>>>>>>
Honestly at this point all I see more flashy graphics requiring even greater bloated hardware requirements with not much gain in functionality. Marketing ++
Funny, cmd.exe is pretty damned functional to me. Add SFU and some Win32 GNU CLI tools, and I don't even have to switch to Linux for most of my favorite CLI tricks.FlatLine84 said:I liked the idea of a SQL based file system, and in the server release I believe, actually having a functional terminal window.
It is happening, just not at the time of release.MTB2Live said:the only selling point i would be interested in is a database filesystem...which isn't happening.
eeyrjmr said:my view is the stuff Vista is shipping and equally all those things that got delayed are all present and available to linux deskyops NOW
now since Vista is demanding some outlandish PC spec's for stuff that doesn't exist yet (or the stuff that does is extreamly expensive)
What the hell is Vista doing with all that perforance!!!! when linux can do it now and well!!!!
I dont want to hear "but PC next year with those kind of spec will be as cheap as PC's now"
That still doesn't explain why it needs such stupid specs and Linux can do it NOW
I want my RAM and CPU time for my stuff NOT for MS stuff!!!!
cuemasterfl said:If I install Vista, it won't screw up my existing XP installation, right?
cuemasterfl said:No matter how "clunky" Windows may seem to some, I will NEVER make the switch to Linux. I don't care if Linux has some of those features NOW. I've wasted so many days trying to get Linux to even install properly that I can't be bothered with it any longer.
FlatLine84 said:Ok..... I don't know what you were trying to install it on, or what distro, but I don't see what problems you could've ran into, it seems to be very easy to set up.
Amen to that! But Microsoft is only half of the problem. Intel is also supporting all of this Big Brother stuff with the Fritz chip & Palladium movement etc. We just installed a new HP server that has the deny code execution chip available. If enabled, Windows Server 2003 w/SP1 will only allow authorized and "signed" code to execute on the server. On the surface it sounds good, but I can't wait until the first "signed & trusted" virus or hacker app is found.elation said:Repeat after me: "A system policing OS is a bad thing." All the DRM I'm hearing about just turns my stomach.
beanman101283 said:What do you mean by screw up? If you install Vista on a seperate partition from your XP installation, you can boot between the two and not worry about overwriting XP if you don't want to.
carloswill said:A druken monkey can install Linux - it's so easy. Gentoo is the only exception.
cuemasterfl said:I've tried different ones. I tried the Ubunto (Sp?) live CD, but I had no video. I tried Suse, I believe, a while back, but I had no video on that too. I don't know enough, or have time to learn, what is needed to troubleshoot/install drivers should it not work perfectly the first time. If I could find something that I know for a fact would work without me having to hunt for drivers/install them I would be more than willing to try it out. If I can at least see the screen and also have net access, that's a start. I can't do anything with video
My video card, btw, is a Radeon 9100.
Suggestions are more than welcome. The weekend is coming up. I might try it again.
Problem is I don't drink anymore.carloswill said:A druken monkey can install Linux - it's so easy. Gentoo is the only exception.
mETRo said:Well after using the beta2 (which still has some memory leaks and slow downs and the usual bugs), I'll say that if they can iron out most of the issues before it hits shelves it will be a very solid operating system. The UI is ten times better and ten times faster for accessing your files and information than the current build of XP. Search function has improved vastly, it's almost like Google desktop speed now, and it looks much better also. Don't knock it until you've seen it in action, or used it. The public beta will be out soon if I am not mistaken, so I urge you to check it out if you're thinking it sucks.
Seems like they're actually DOING things to make this OS more user-friendly.
Who told you that you had to reformat just to resize a partition?cuemasterfl said:That's kinda what I figured. I have 2 partitions: one with 70GB (my main XP partition) and one with 8GB. The 8GB partition isn't big enough, so if I want to do this, I'll have to reformat and resize the partitions, which isn't a big deal I guess.
j4zzee said:Amen to that! But Microsoft is only half of the problem. Intel is also supporting all of this Big Brother stuff with the Fritz chip & Palladium movement etc. We just installed a new HP server that has the deny code execution chip available. If enabled, Windows Server 2003 w/SP1 will only allow authorized and "signed" code to execute on the server. On the surface it sounds good, but I can't wait until the first "signed & trusted" virus or hacker app is found.
give ubuntu/kubuntu a try - it's one of THE easiest installs. Fedora Core, Mandrive, SuSe are also all very mature installs (these three are GUI while ubuntu is ncurses)Susquehannock said:Problem is I don't drink anymore.
But seriously, if the newer veresions are that easy to install I might have to give Linux
another try. Last time was several years ago so surely they have simplified things since.
djnes said:Who told you that you had to reformat just to resize a partition?
Susquehannock said:^_^ - many thanx for the info
qb4ever said:What do I think about it? I think 7/7 of my main computers agree linux is better
Honestly at this point all I see more flashy graphics requiring even greater bloated hardware requirements with not much gain in functionality. Marketing ++