Vista's 'Next Gen' TCP/IP Stack

boyko.at.netqos writes "Microsoft's new Vista TCP/IP stack might be beneficial to businesses looking to increase use of their IT infrastructure... if they did it right. Ted Romer at Network Performance Daily writes: '[Vista] now allows us to throttle outbound traffic at a client or server. For example, you can throttle the bandwidth of a particular subnet to a particular server, giving some departments more access to the servers that they need. You can even restrict outgoing bandwidth for certain peer-to-peer applications like bit torrent. This shaping can also be handy when applied to servers, allowing less bandwidth for certain users/departments, and more for others. While consumers may debate whether Vista is a worthwhile upgrade, I believe it to be important for enterprise customers who will best be able to put Vista's capabilities to their fullest potential. Of course, I'm getting it for DirectX 10 games, but that's just me.'"

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Re:-1 Linux Zealot (well... in slashdot might be +

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And just to emphasize my point, we are not talking about an obscure hyper closed source driver here, it is a driver that is already *supported* in the kernel. WHY the FUCK is it SOOOOOO cumbersome to connect and use a dance mat in Linux while in Windows XP [which does NOT support the hardware and you have to download a THIRD PARTY DRIVER] is as easy as [lots of things] double click, next next next, finish.

Soo? any comments? Linux zealots please display your fury ahaha.

p.s. As I said I work and develop software [Mainly Java but I do some C++/wxWidgets/OpenGL code which I always try to make 100%] portable in Linux. My everyday platform is Linux, I recently bought Lemmings Revolution game and plan to spend a weekend making it work with wine, but for the love of god, IT IS NOT AS EASY TO USE AS WINDOWS.