A Quick Peek at Longhorn

Kaypro writes: "The Register has an interesting article with some minor details regarding Microsoft's next OS. P2P, filesystem plugins and some thoughts from Hans Reiser, of ReiserFS fame make for an interesting read."

Comments

Quick Question...

[FortKnox]

Should we be discussing:

• A.) How bad MS is, and how we hate it and everything they do.
• B.) How MS users are inferior and shouldn't be played by MS.
• C.) The intricacy of this new idea, and how linux can compete, or use the ideas they bring forward

I guess it all comes down to whether you see MS as an 'enemy' or a competitor. Linus sees it as a competitor, respects them, and makes sure his OS can compete with them. He never really derails them or has an elitist attitude. Maybe we should follow suit, here?

This is an insult!

[TheAngryArmadillo]

Naming their new OS 'Longhorn' is an affront to all UT grads everywhere!

Can't they call it 'Aggie' or something?

AngryArmadillo

Re:This is an insult!

[llywrch]

> Naming their new OS 'Longhorn' is an affront to all UT [utexas.edu] grads everywhere!
>
> Can't they call it 'Aggie' or something?

I can't imagine how this would be considered ``Flamebait". But then, I'm not from Texas, so I have no passion invested in this historic rivalry.

Geoff

Re:Scary future ahead

[brer_rabbit]

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Re:Pluging FS

[JohnDenver]

95 included a plugin fs...

but M$ forgot to release the API.


Are you talking about Active Directory???

What's going on?

[pubjames]

I've not posted like this before, and I know this is immediately going to be modded down, but here goes...

Recently I've noticed that the moderation on Slashdot has changed quite considerably. I consider I post intelligent, articulate and reasonable posts, and I used to score 5 quite frequently. But now more often than not my posts are moderated down as off-topic or redundant even when I am directly responding to the subject of the parent.

This makes posting less interesting, because fewer people get to read my posts, and is becoming annoying.

OK, now to see how quickly this gets modded down. Oh well...

Re:The Speed of Slashdot.

[C4v3_7r0ll]

Should I even point out the whole 24 hours you missed?

Re:Scary future ahead

[Dephex Twin]

Virus is not a Latin word, it's an English word, and therefore follows English conventions: one virus, many viruses. It is based on the Latin 'vir' but is as English as all get out.

Conventions like datum/data and vertex/vertices, or did you mean conventions like woman/women, or sheep/sheep?

English is full of exceptions. Just because it came from Latin into English doesn't mean it is "virii", but on the other hand, the fact that it is an English word doesn't mean it must end with an "s".

There is no "correct" way to say anything, as language evolves with time. The closest one can come to "correct" is whatever best communicates the idea(the point of language).

In the case of viruses/virii, I think they are on pretty equal footing. Especially since this is a geek website.

mark

Re:Think Latin (was: Re:Scary future ahead)

[absurd_spork]

P.S. Once again, it must be pointed out that virii is not a word (and actually makes no sense linguistically).

It does make sense. As the singular word virus stems from Latin, it's plural version actually is virii.

w00t! Wrong. (Sorry, could not resist :-))

virus is not a Latin word in itself, partly because the good old Latin speakers didn't have a notion of viruses, but even if it were, the second i would be redundant. Viri would be perfectly enough, except that this is the plural of vir "man".

The English plural of virus is viruses, perfectly regular. In my opinion *virii is a bit of a hypercorrect form which someone invented to distinguish himself by his education.