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Looking at Longhorn

Posted by michael on from the proudly-imitating-all-of-Mac-OS's-flaws dept.

ShinyPlasticBag writes "Paul Thurrott has an excellent preview of Longhorn milestone five over at his Supersite for Windows. It looks like this may be Microsoft's equivalent to OS X -- the next version of Windows will have a 3D accelerated desktop and other graphical goodies. In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."

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  1. NEWSFLASH, NTFS is a journaling filesystem! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    git with the program dude.

    1. Re:NEWSFLASH, NTFS is a journaling filesystem! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Whatever. XP has a multi-threaded TCP/IP stack, it has a journaling filesystem in 1995, had full plug & play years ago, including support for USB, Firewire, etc waaaay before Linux.

      Windows is still way behind what? Linux? You are a blind Linux zealot that doesn't know how to think or research for himself.

      Try actually using Linux for development, using gdb and ddd and you'll cringe at how often it doesn't work as well as Visual Studio. I mean, yes, gdb does work and ddd does work most of the time, but more than often I had to reboot my entire machine because of some bug. The IDE is nothing compared to Visual Studio.

      I love the ideals behind Linux and I completely support open source development, but I'm not blind to Linux's faults. I hate Microsoft, but I love NT and its descendants. Hate the company, love the technology.

  2. You are not correct by ink · · Score: 5, Informative

    NTFS was a journaling filesystem from the start; even before NT4 came out. It was a journaling filesystem before Reiserfs or EXT3 even had a single line of code written. You can set it up to fully journal the filesystem data as well (it only does metadata by default). It did change with NT 5, but the journaling capabilities still existed in prior versions. More documentation can be found here

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  3. The submitter of the article was an idiot by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The new big feature of the filesystem is not that it's journalling.

    They are integrating the filesystem with their SQL engine so that files are easily searchable with the multiple GB hard drives everyone will have by the time 2005 rolls around. The big feature is that it's a database filesystem called WinFS.

    I guess the submitters of the article don't even read the articles anymore! Gotta love the quip at the end of the summary--makes him look even more moronic. NTFS has been a journalling file system since its inception. Many years before ext3 reared its ugly head.

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  4. Re:Has anyone else noticed... by antiMStroll · · Score: 5, Informative
    2000 and XP already support drive mounts. Microsfot just hid it really well, no doubt to make it easier on the support lines.

    Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Disk Management

    Select the partition, right click on 'Change Drice Letter and Paths' , select 'Change' and you'll be presented with two option. One is to mount the drive as a traditional letter, the other as a directory.

  5. Re:In other words... by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 5, Informative

    Huh? Where did you get this?

    As far as I know, Microsoft has NO plans on removing compatibility with older applications. I'm running Windows Server 2003, and I can still run Win16 apps as well as most DOS apps.

    The parent is nothing but a troll. Yes, DRM in the OS is not a good thing. No, it will not have the profound impact that you think it will have. No one will stop you from running Linux on your computer.

    DRM in the OS means very little. Application developers know that the adoption of a new OS is slow, and they will not do anything that would reduce their userbase.

  6. Re:linux has no features I see in the screenshots by rikkus-x · · Score: 5, Informative
    a convenient login widget

    kdm. Easy to configure, many useful options. You can even configure it to log you in automatically. Switch on your machine, go make coffee, come back, you're logged in and ready to start work, your previous session restored.

    easy to use admin tools for login access

    kuser can do this for you. Linux distributors often provide their own tools for this, for example SuSE, whose admin tools are handily integrated into the KDE Control Centre.

    more convenient and innovative UI metaphors

    Play around with kicker, the KDE panel. It does most of the stuff that Longhorn thing does, plus lots more stuff which they haven't done.

    I expect Gnome does some or all of these things too; I picked KDE because it's what I know.

    Rik