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Windows Vista Capable Machines Coming
An anonymous reader writes "PC World's Techlog has a short piece talking about the upcoming emergence of 'Windows Vista Capable' PCs." From the article: "The Vista Capable designation doesn't promise that a PC will provide a great Vista experience, or even that it'll support all Vista features or features...just that it'll be able to run Windows Vista Home Basic in some not-very-well-defined-but-apparently-adequate way. At the moment, there are still new PCs on store shelves that don't meet the Vista Capable guidelines--for instance, low-end systems still sport 256MB of RAM in some cases. Wonder if that means that that A) we'll see some cheap systems that still have XP even after Vista ships; or B) the specs on even the cheapest machines will be beefed up; or C) we'll see machines that have Vista preloaded but which don't qualify as Vista capable?"
If the average Windows user had 50% the technical knowledge of the average Linux user , you would have 95% less security problems . The problem with security is that the user is not supposed to know what a port or an IP is , but be protected by the OS from the people that do know .
With all due respect , securing a Windows box enough to get it online is 10x times easier that securing a *nix box .
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You see, your problem is that you have a reasonable, sensible point of view. Therefore, you are having a hard time on this site, as it is full of zealots quite willing to contradict themselves twice in the same sentence if it means spitting a little more bile at Microsoft. Your life would be immesurably improved by never visiting Slashdot again, and not using open-source software in any way. This way, you can avoid these idiots.
Shouldn't Linix still run "fine" on 32MB? What happened to cause it to bloat?
KDE / Gnome, basically.
Fortunatly, while they are "the default" Linux interface now, you still have choice of many other lightweight environments.
Heheh.. such a naive and oblivious fool.
It means it'll be capable of getting viruses,trojans,worms,malware and spyware just like the older versions of Windows. "Move along people, nothing to see here!" -- Officer Barbrady