Longhorn Developers @ MSDN

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 28, 2003 @02:50AM from the future-of-the-rest dept.

ePIsOdEOnline writes "The official Microsoft Longhorn Developers website went live. Content is filled with information fresh from the PDC, and the host of secrecy swarming Microsoft and its next generation Operating System, Longhorn"

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Not eating their own dogfood? by ChaoticChaos · 2003-10-28 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

"The official Microsoft Longhorn Developers website went live."

Must not be running Longhorn.
1. Re:Not eating their own dogfood? by TedCheshireAcad · 2003-10-28 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I can't seem to find the CVS repository.
  
  Anyone else had luck?
Make or Break? by Tetsugaku-San · 2003-10-28 02:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Make or Break for M$ eh? Ooooo please let it be break! pleaseOpleaseOpleaseOpleaseOpleaseO :)

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Longhorn apt-get easy! by Debian+Troll's+Best · 2003-10-28 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny

I've already upgraded my Debian box to Longhorn using a simple apt-get dist upgrade command. I don't know why Microsoft has secrecy warnings all over the place...you should be able to get it from any Debian mirror. Has anyone else upgraded their Debian install this way? I can't seem to find GNOME any more.
Microsoft eliminate blue screen of death... by MountainMan101 · 2003-10-28 02:58 · Score: 5, Funny

The fix was simple. They simply swapped:
$error.backcolour=#0000ff;

for

$error.backcolour=#000000;

Now, no Blue screen of death!
Re:Editor's Blog by Sayten241 · 2003-10-28 03:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Looks like a premature launch
And as we all know, premature launches are not satisfying.
Re:Wise choice by mahdi13 · 2003-10-28 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny

But 3 years to polish off what is now in beta?
Who does MS think they are...Debian?!

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Longhorn's target PC specs... by freejamesbrown · 2003-10-28 03:57 · Score: 3, Funny

"4-6GHz processor
2GB+ memory
1TB hard drive
Graphics processor 3X today's performance
1GB Ethernet, 54Mbps wireless networking"

4-6Ghz? "Trend: Developers rent meat lockers."

2GB+ memory... "our API has completely done away with garbage collection. we just periodically reboot."

1TB? are we going to support versioning of the entire hard drive? (might be an interesting way to roll back virus damage.) ...
m.
Enough with the MS press releases by re-geeked · 2003-10-28 04:14 · Score: 3, Funny

How many Longhorn articles is this now?

Is Slashdot still interested in Free Software?

Or did someone forget to tell me that Longhorn is GPL'd?

Also, isn't there someplace better than the front page to discuss minor updates to legacy systems?

I mean, really, Windows?? Who uses this crap any more?

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Re:Have some Alpo! by tuba_dude · 2003-10-28 04:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Dude, he said "beta-quality" not "beta".

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