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Microsoft Longhorn Delayed
skreuzer writes "Microsoft has once again shifted the schedule for the release of "Longhorn," the company's next major version of Windows. The product was originally expected to ship next year. Then in May of this year, officials pushed back the release date to 2005. But now executives are declining to say when they expect the software to ship."
Unless the release date is "never," then whatever they tell us is much too soon.
Then:
Windows XP: Digital Widescreen with Dolby Sound;
Windows XP: Attack of the Drones;
windows XP: A New Bug; (Remastered edition)
windows XP: The Corperation strikes back;
windows XP: Return of the BSOD!
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Of course there is.
When you have people arguing that Linux is a kernel not an operating system; it's the "userland environment" that makes up the GNU/Linux operating system, and there are holes in all those userland apps, it's a part of the operating system.
You can't have it both ways. Besides, those errata security fixes aren't for all those 1000 packages. Plus, look at my sig.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Cite a source and prove it.
Oh, that's right, you can disable Palladium. But it's fun to forget that, isn't it?
"Sufferin' succotash."
You can get all the advanced features and functionality of Longhorn (and then some) later this month! Where? Here, of course!
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This just proves to me how Wind0z3 is a toy OS.
* larger memory mapped file size
Linux already had huge amount of memory mappable as mmap'able since probably the mid 90's.
* larger driver and system space
What does this mean? What the drivers before had to be mapped to a particular region of memory or something? I don't get it. Linux can take as much 'System Space' as it freaking wants. The kernel can map as many memory pages as it wants for itself. Why was this ever limited in the first place?
* ability to detach from processes being debugged
WOW. Imagine THAT! I think Linux has had this ability since 1.0!! Stupid Microsoft OS.
* callbacks for file system filter drivers
How useful. Yeah you convinced me. Now let me write Microsoft that big check for their buggy worm-infested OS. Now that I can install filesystem filter drivers easily using their callback scheme, I can really fly! No wonder they have that commercial where everyone is flying out the window in their office. I mean this was the one feature people really were screaming for in order to increase their productivity and become super-beings and reach nirvana. THANKS BILLY FOR THIS GREAT OS!