Avalon Preview Released for XP

CliffH writes "For those that want to play with a preview release of Avalon (the November Community Technology Preview) and the SDK, head on over to this page and download to your heart's delight. It is 261MB+ and is already going slow so be warned."

Comments

Actually,

[krisp]

it's 255.3mb, and 261,450kb. And what u talkin bout willis? My download started at 1400KB/sec and trickled down to my 5mbit cap!

I'm going to download it....

[Anonymous Coward]

Just in case it may work on my mac ;-)

Re:I'm going to download it....

[RonnyJ]

Just in case it may work on my mac ;-)

It probably won't work on Windows either ;)

Video Card with Longhorn.

[kdark1701]

Alright, lets see what my Radeon 9200 can do...

Re:Video Card with Longhorn.

[niteice]

Alright, let's see what my GeForce 2 MX can do...

Re:Here comes the bashing...

[DrCode]

I'm not trying to be funny. But every time I step on a nail, it hurts. So I've learned to avoid stepping on nails, even though there might be one somewhere that will feel good when it pierces my foot.

Similarly, every version of Windows I've used hurts (and the pain lasts much longer than that from the nail).

Re:Here comes the bashing...

[johannesg]

Instead of discussing the technology (which is actually pretty cool...they do have smart engineers at Microsoft), I have a feeling this will be a bunch of +5 Funny Microsoft-bash posts. One third referencing some obscure GUI from the past where something almost like this has been done already, another third referencing some future project not released yet doing the same, and the rest a bunch of +5 Funny "jokes" rehashing old Microsoft jokes from the last eight years...

...and one idiot who thinks he can stave off all that by posting his insanely smart prediction about it.

Reaon for Longhorn delay

[bstadil]

.NET is garbage-collected,

I guess this is why Longhorn keeps on slipping. Maybe they should let a little code slip through so as not to jeopardize the Duke Nukem Forever bundling agreement.

Re:The only thing I care about:

[HiredMan]

Ummmm... that link points to one of those cheezy ISP 404 pages full of Subject links and Search option.

Sadly, it is still one of the most reasoned arguments I've seen in Slashdot Windows thread in days.

=tkk

PS ;)

What is Avalon?

[ProfFalcon]

It is 261MB+ and is already going slow so be warned.

Fortunately, there's no explanation of what the hell "Avalon" is in the text so that ought to help with the download performance. Had someone actually known what the hell you were so excited about, more people would try to download the software.

Good strategy. It's like those morons who put the important part of their comments in the subject line and continue on to their message. I miss important bits of the message since I do not scan for the subjects so miss out on the point they are attempting to make. It sure makes life easier for the reader if we don't know what is going on and do not have to actually get interested in the article or comment enough to read it.

There. Rant over. I feel better now.

Thanks

I know exactly how...

[brasten]

...you feel.

The best part..

[Anonymous Coward]

3m:50s into the demo in "daniel_lehenbauer_avalon_3d_MBR.wmv" there's an Amiga poster hanging on the guy's wall.

Re:The nice thing about APIs is there's so many of

[ceeam]

".NET is garbage-collected"

Duh, learn your punctuation! It should be ".NET is garbage, collected". :)

Re:3 Pillars of Longhorn

[acb]

You forgot DRM (Palladium).