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Looking at Longhorn
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."
either way windows is still way behind :P
so i wouldnt be talking
So I am assuming that since you eschew control, all your kids have root level access on all your computers at home.
Right?
You posted the definition for a journalling filesystem.
That gets "+5" around here?
Someone was karma whoring.
"Sufferin' succotash."
...an unintuitive interface, ...Microsoft really are trying to create their own OSX!
:)
limited customisation,
frequent minor upgrades that make no difference,
application preferences that you can't control,
lots of unexplained OS options,
poor documentation,
display settings that aren't preserved when you open new folders,
useless graphical transition effects,
transparency that causes massive slowdown,
one crashing application managing to take down your system,
slow start-up times,
still no built in compatibility with non-native file systems...
For those people that think I'm trolling, I'm not -- I really do have all these problems with OSX. OSX may be intuitive if you've used a Mac OS before but it sure as hell isn't for anyone else (in my experience).
If only Broadcom released Airport drivers for Linux, I could dump OSX once and for all
Manta
It may use a journal somewhere, but it makes virtually no useful guarantees about file system integrity. In different words, as usual, marketing and reality are far apart when it comes to Windows.
But its from Microsoft. This is not an anti MS rant but when MS do some thing it always terns out crap!!!!
Blackcomb is the server due out ~2008 you twit. I think you meant to say, currently Longhorn doesn't support 99.99999% of apps until the emulator layer arrives and that it includes something called DRM which linux zealots love to HATE, even though they do not know how it will be implemented. F*ckers.
I'll have you know I never wear black turtlenecks. Black t-shirts sure but not a turtleneck.
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that is the most freakishly huge taskbar I have ever seen!
dear sweet lord.
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Yeah, so are your wallets. :p
$3500 plus for a 14" 1ghz powermac? Naw.