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psuedo-poll: favorite x86 OS?

monkeydo_jb said:
You never clearly responded to my question about the filesystem. As I understood it,
WinFS wasn't implemented yet. I haven't downloaded any of the Alphas, so I'm interested to know.
-jeff
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Yes it is implemented in 4074. To what extent, I couldn't tell you. For a non-developer all it translates to is extra meta data. IMO, there's way too much info at a high level. I think most of that should be, and will be hidden better. 4074 is probably 5 or so builds behind what MS was showing at WinHEC in their demonstrations.

The full scope of WinFS (Server-side, domain-wide) may not be implemented for several more years according to reports. I don't expect even the full WinFS to cause that much of a problem. x86 has always had great integer performance as well as disk i/o performance (on Windows anyway).
 
AHHH i just thought of something.

Did you have your ethernet cable already connected throughout your installation process? When you installed your security updates?

If it is at all possible, i think that when you are installing XP, you should have the security updates on a CD so you can install of them BEFORE connecting to the network (be it cable/dsl/etc.)

If it wasn't connected, then ignore me 🙂
 
übergeek said:
i'm not crazy enough to install kazaa 🙂
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Good! I have to admit, I clicked on one adware install in IE before. It took maybe 2 seconds to install and I had over 5 pesky adware progs that took a week to get rid of. I finally got Pest Control.

I was downloading a zip file and the IE dialog said something.zip. I clicked before I realized if it said .zip, that meant it had another extension, .exe. The dialog didn't say run it said save/open. Of course I opened it which ran the install.

In a weak moment, I was getting a keygen. I ended up buying what I was getting the keygen for. The best thing about SP2 is it stops all executables and gives you and inquiry. However, I did get my search page hijacked yesterday with SP2 and Trend Antivirus. Unfortunately, Opera doesn't work with ISA Server. I did download it but couldn't do much with it.
 
Hmm some people mentioned AvantBrowser, b/c it runs off the IE engine...I wonder if Avantbrowser can be an "IE alternative", while we still use Firefox/Opera for the rest?
 
Mav451 said:
Did you have your ethernet cable already connected throughout your installation process? When you installed your security updates?
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Hmm i'm not sure. I know I haven't used the ethernet cable yet, but I might have been using wifi.
 
monkeydo_jb said:
Good luck affording a system of at least this caliber (granted it is a few years down the pipe):
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That's NOT the specs for Longhorn. This HAS been discussed ad nauseum. It was what was expected to be standard in 3-4 years. Not the blasted system requirments.

I've run Longhorn Alpha. Yes ALPHA with its buggy code and debug features all turned on on my 800Mhz 384MB laptop and it runs. Slow but it does run.
 
MorganX said:
Current version is 2120 and yes, it's been solid since RC1. I don't know why on earth they're talking about late summer release.
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Because it breaks some apps....badly. I've had a number of apps error out on startup and that's with their current RC1 package. I'm not all that surprised that MS is pushing it back what with the tweaks they are doing to security under the hood. You don't fix god knows how many years of bad code with one SP and one painful upgrade.
Also they NEED to give developers more time to test their software with this patch. Off the top of my head I had at least 7 applications die on me after installing SP2.
 
Mav451 said:
Yeah I think we're seeing deja vu...'98 was crappy until '98SE came out...and XP SP2 is looking like what XP should have been 3 years ago, when it was first released 🙁
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*Coughs*OS 10.0*coughs*
 
Hehe Silicon Addict; but the problem is, I only started using/playing around with OSX a few months ago (10.3.2), so I have no idea what 10.0 was like at all.

Would my first impressions with Macs been different if I had tried 10.0 instead of 10.3.2 (with its Expose haha)?
 
Mav451 said:
Hehe Silicon Addict; but the problem is, I only started using/playing around with OSX a few months ago (10.3.2), so I have no idea what 10.0 was like at all.

Would my first impressions with Macs been different if I had tried 10.0 instead of 10.3.2 (with its Expose haha)?
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I've never played with 10.0 myself but lets put it this way. Apple gave 10.1 away for free. SP's like 10.3.x are typically free. Major, or minor depending on your point of view, 3.X releases never are. The reason was that 10.0 was craptastic and rather crash prone that Apple made good by giving .1 away to those brave few that dared take the OS X challenge. Check out this rather extensive review at ARSTechnica:
OS 10.0

OS 10.1

OS 10.2

OS 10.3

The praise in each review has steadily increased and with good reason. 10.3 is what 10.0 should have been. I'm not going to argue that OS X isn't one hell of a sweat OS. It is. I think its progression has been no different then any other OS. It starts off somewhat buggy and gradually gets better.
I expect this from Longhorn as well. Its a total rewrite from the ground up. I think we are going to see a ton of non critical patches for Longhorn soon after release. Prob nto for security but compatibility, and functionality.

*shrugs* At this point I’m more excited about OS X: Tiger. I want to see what apple has up their Steve…oops sorry sleeve. 😉
 
This is ridiculous. 6 viruses after 15 days? You obviously have no idea how to run a Windows based PC. I've used Windows since 3.11 and I've never had a virus... EVER.
 
Gherkin said:
This is ridiculous. 6 viruses after 15 days? You obviously have no idea how to run a Windows based PC. I've used Windows since 3.11 and I've never had a virus... EVER.
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now now, be gentle.
i've been using windows a few minor versions before you, and i'm not stupid. i do know enough to know how to remove it, and trash the copies of viruses i have. i have some clue. what, do you want me to bitch about some problem you have? i was just asking what other OSs people recommended, by the way i'm goign to install gentoo tonight. oh hooray for you, you havent gotten a single virus yet. Wow. 🙄 🙄 what an achievement. 🙄
and by the way, even with 6 viruses in 15 days, that still averages out to be less than one virus every year i've been using computers.
 
monkeydo_jb said:
I'm going to have to chime in for SuSE 9.1 Pro.

I just got it in at work and it's quite streamlined and user-friendly.
I've already implemented it in my company's warehouse for running
5250 emulation as well as vt-220 emulation.

It comes with the 2.6 kernel, as well as the latest KDE (3.2) and GNOME (2.6?).

Installation was a snap except for choosing packages. That's where YAST (Yet
Another Setup Tool) is lacking still.

The other aspect that I am disappointed with is the amount of memory KDE now uses.
256MB is already overflowing by the time it gets entirely booted up. Just
make sure you have plenty of memory.


People are chiming in for Red Hat, but I lost my taste for them when they
turned the corner and became strictly enterprise.

Sure they contribute to Fedora, but only as a testing ground. Once new software is proven
running in Fedora, they implement it into their Enterprise server. Pretty smart, but still disappointing.


SuSE 9.1 is my current flavor of choice (I also enjoy Knoppix 3.4, Knoppix STD 0.1, and
Gentoo 2004.1) but I can't vouch for Mandrake 10, as I've never tried it out.

-jeff
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Yeah its great anyways since i live in oakland and they r located here i can get anyone a copy of 9.1 for free if they pay shipping
 
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