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OUT... I'm happy with Vista. More and more programs are becoming compatible with it. Granted it has a huge learning curve, but I think it's worth it.
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OUT... I'm happy with Vista. More and more programs are becoming compatible with it. Granted it has a huge learning curve, but I think it's worth it.
Wait till 2008 when anew version of worm blaster attacks Vista
Last edited by Al Gore; 09-26-2007 at 12:43 PM.
any pics?
How did the house come out?
Fantastic !!! lovin' life here in my own little chunk of the world?
Out. I'm happy with vista too.
Out.
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Until you use a torrent :lamo
explain please...
MS offering free downgrades:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/windows/m...ems-303067.php
While many sites today are claiming that MS is only offering Vista-to-XP downgrade discs to OEMs, CNet Asia found out that Microsoft support will allow anybody with a copy of Vista Ultimate or Business to call and request a downgrade disc themselves, just like it says in the license terms. So there you have it, any Joe Schmo can pick up a Vista downgrade disc as long as they have a nice enough version of Vista.
Out. Vista is a-OK in my book.
Vista is new and requires some learning which is a challenge to some. I like it!
Out. I installed Vista a few months back, and was waiting for all the compatibility issues that I've been hearing about since forever....but they never arose. I've had no issues whatsoever. Vista owns XP.
has vista caught up to XP in game tests yet? my father in law has a developer's license for XP, so i won't be considering a switch until he decides to get one for vista.
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I've read a few articles where Vista turns some machines into dogs (processor too slow (under 2 GHz), 512 Mb not enough RAM). Corps are not rushing to abandon XP. The retail OS-upgrade market essentially doesn't exist, never has. 99% of people upgrade their OS by buying a new machine with the new OS
And now MS has officially setup a Vista-to-XP downgrade path.
http://www.news.com/The-XP-alternati...l?tag=nefd.pop
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out.
You really can't judge a MS OS until the second Service Pack is out. They're all ing buggy as on release day.
I'm on the fence. I have one Vista Ultimate system and two XP systems. What would be nice is if someone were to use nLite to put out a version of tiny Vista.
In.
I got vista for my laptop back in December, and got rid of it after I few months. It had some stupid glitch where my CPU usage would e to 100% on both cores whenever I booted up my PC. I'll wait till a service pack or two come out for Vista.
In for now, based on numerous hardware conflicts I've seen with my friends computers (who have advanced degrees in programming and networking).
Of course, the best OS is still NetBSD... now if it was only easy to use.
I have a dual boot machine, XP with Ubuntu Linux. Best of both worlds.
What makes NetBSD stand out? I've never used it. The best and most stable OS I've ever used is Linux From Scratch, followed by OpenBSD. I just gave Fedora7 a try because I wanted a 64-bit Linux on my new system and didn't want to go to the trouble to build a multilib LFS, and man, Fedora is a steaming pile of crap. It's almost as bad as Gentoo as far as packages being incompatible.
Is NetBSD all that different from OpenBSD? I've never used FreeBSD either, as it seems like the BSD Gentoo.
NetBSD isn't all that different from FreeBSD, from what I've heard. Basically, there are minor internal differences between the two (such as the entire kernel for Net being contained in one file) that end up being a different OS, but not substantial enough for most people to notice.
I honestly haven't used the OSes enough to personally give a blow-by-blow account, but I've seen a couple of friends use it, and it's absolutely insane. They had 17 media files playing at once while simultaneously performing a couple compiling operations. AND surfing. I think there are similar videos up on youtube. Linux is simply not as efficient at memory management, although MUCH easier to use, especially the new Ubuntu builds.
If you really want to see how powerful Linux is in comparison to Vista, do a search for Beryl vs. Vista in youtube.
IN - too many of the high end stuff just doesn't work properly
OpenBSD owns all
Seriously the BSD family is very similar with different scopes to them. Quick and dirty differences (nuances are much more complicated).
OpenBSD - Security and hardware support - Best security record in the industry
NetBSD - Emphasis on running on many different hardware platforms
FreeBSD - Empahsis on network operations/heavy duty servers
We've started using OpenBSD for all out IT backbone infrastructure a few years back and never looked back. It requires an investment in knowledge but then it just blows everything else away.
P.S. ST is running on OpenBSD
Does NetBSD use those stupid strl* procedures (ie, strlcpy) like OpenBSD? Those are slow as , and have no business being in libc. OpenBSD has ty graphical performance because it won't run X setuid root. Still, it's very easy to use, and much more stable and easy to maintain than is Linux.
My favorite part of OpenBSD is the man pages. They absolutely destroy the Linux equivalents. Also, their wireless driver for my card (it's Atheros) kills the native Linux and even the Windows drivers (although I think it was developed by the FreeBSD project).
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