A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053

An anonymous reader writes "Even though the next generation Windows product is not due until late 2005 or even 2006, here is a look at what Microsoft has in store for it's future operating system. 'Without a vast amount of tweaking, this build is a resource hog. At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB!! Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.'"

Comments

Who cares about RAM usage

[PhrostyMcByte]

Most systems now have 512MB, in two years they will probably have 1GiB or more. I've got 1GiB in mine right now.

System resource usage

[Eric Smith]

At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB!! Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.

How is it obvious that the resource utilization will go down? When they add more bloat, the commit charge gets bigger. No surprise there.

Report from the inside.

[Lord Graga]

Okay, I know a dude who recently got Longhorn installed on his machine, because he's inside the M$ business.

He reports:
- It's totally unstable. - It is unuseable on his 2.6 Ghz machine with 1gig of ram (as far as I remember)

I do not know which build, but it's probably still hella unstable, and seriously what can we use their RAM muncher numbers for when the system is unstable, filled with debug, and probably won't look much like it when it's done?
Still it's nice to hear a "status report", I love those little gems ;)

Re:OS "improvements"

[ultrabot]

Does anyone else see the irony in this person using the term lean in relation to the Linux kernal?

Probably some w2k-running BSD fanboy would. Why do all the Microsoft apologists run BSD instead of Linux? Overcompensating because of their penis-envy, perhaps?

Pretty much any Unix kernel is pretty lean. POSIX is lean, and simple. The OS might resort to some complexity to get performance, but the bloat should stay within tolerable limits if POSIX is all you want to support (instead of all kinds backwards compatibility hacks and DOS 2.11 compatibility).

Slashdotted, so I'll have to speculate

[Snork Asaurus]

At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB

Of which 256 MB is related to DRM?

Re:Apple

[Gannoc]

Believe it or not, I think Windows 2000 / Windows XP is as stable as linux / Freebsd. I didn't say better, I didn't say more secure... but I think the stablish issue is mute.

1) Thats "moot" not "mute"

2) You're incorrect.

How about the site?

[r.jimenezz]

Does anyone know if it's a debug build as well? Its commit charge seems to tend to infinity at this time :P

Obviously?

[frovingslosh]

Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.

Bullshit.

Re:Nearly 500 meg?

[imsabbel]

Well, my raid array is 3.5 MILLION times as large as the floppy of my first computer (cpc6128).
RIDICULOUS!!!!!!1111

And YOUR OS is FOUR HUNDERED TIMES BIGGER then cpm 2.1

New Internet Explorer features

[srcosmo]

Ah, it has a popup blocker, and a download manager!!

Where would we be without MS innovations?