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Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel
Tiberius_Fel writes "TechWorld is running an article saying that Vista's graphics will not be in the kernel. The goal is obviously to improve reliability, alongside the plan to make most drivers run in user mode." From the article: "The shift of the UI into user mode also helps to make the UI hardware independent - and has already allowed Microsoft to release beta code of the UI to provide developers with early experience. IT also helps make it less vulnerable to kernel mode malware that could take the system down or steal data. In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."
You mean copyright infringe data! The data's not going anywhere.
For a site that complains about this whenever it comes up, get it right!
Does this mean we can customize our own BSOD?
Who needs the overhead of a windowing GUI on a server?
Windows(tm) administrators...
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
You mean turning off the monitor doesnt do that?!?!?
Microsoft programmers found this solution by modifying a secret Vista file called WIN.INI with the following line:
shell=command.com
Then, they added the GUI in another secret Vista file called AUTOEXEC.BAt containing one line:
win.com
Command-line-only Windows?
Redundant?
That's funny - the Mac zealots I talk to are going around complaining about Starbuck's supposedly inefficient "vanilla latte foaming technique".
(Ya, I am a Mac zealot... busted. I have X11 installed as well, came with Tiger.)
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
In 2013 they'll put the graphics driver back in... and shake it all about.
Who needs the overhead of running Windows as a server?
"... this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."
Now if Microsoft could just find a way to separate the internet browser from the OS...
** cough, choke, gag...**
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Microsoft has decided to rename this new, kernel-distant graphics interface "X". Fringe groups note that this name is already taken, but Microsoft is in talks to buy said fringe groups.
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OS X administrators too!
In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS -
or DOS and windows 3.1.
*ducks*
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
Wow, you're behind the times. MS pioneered the scroll wheel back in 1996, almost 10 years ago.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
because of the huge games market for NT 3.51?
O_o
+++ATH0
Point: to make the GUI on windows servers optional.
Not that I like much of MS's junk, I've always thought that naming their OS something as common and obvious as "Windows" was dumb. They expanded this to include the name in things that made no sense like "Windows powered smartcards" which are very simple chips smaller than a penny that sit in a credit card.
Now even their servers named Windows might not even have "windows".
I used a Windows machine last night. Seemed so '90s.
Our company is a Windows shop but we do have one Red Hat 7 server run by a Windows admin. When they gave me root access, the first thing I did:
:-P
$ ps -e | grep X | kill -9 `awk '{ print $1 }'`
Server immediately started running noticeably faster.
Well, it would, not running xinetd anymore..
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