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Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details
babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to even more testers at a later date. 'In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook. Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds. Microsoft is also touting improvements in "the speed of copying and extracting files," so we tested a few of those scenarios. We noted a slight increase in the time required to copy 562 JPEG images totaling 1.9GB from an SD Card to the hard drive of the aforementioned HP Compaq notebook.'"
fancy previewing the service pack... are they really that worried about people drifting off to greener pastures or sticking with XP
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I'm running ubuntu-desktop and a fair share of applications with Qt dependancies:
/ /var/run /var/lock /dev /dev/shm /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile /home
/home directory, Vista's minimum requirement exceeds my total usage, even with a plethora of applications ( Inkscape, Amarok, LyX, ... ). Funny thing is, I have wine installed, so I actually have a fair share of the windows API included in this install. It seriously makes me wonder what Vista uses all its space for.
BlueParrot:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.2G 4.6G 4.2G 53%
varrun 316M 108K 316M 1%
varlock 316M 0 316M 0%
udev 316M 84K 316M 1%
devshm 316M 0 316M 0%
lrm 316M 34M 282M 11%
/dev/sda5 15G 4.9G 8.9G 36%
If you don't count the music files in my
Unfortunately Ubuntu guys screwed up bigtime in a much more severe way. See the laptop hard drive bug.
Ok, I just realised 7GB is the amount free you need to install the service pack, the minimum requirements for the actual Vista install (without SP1) exceeds my entire HD usage, and that includes several gigabytes of music... I mean, I realised it was bad, but what the fuck?
Oh shut up. Name another software vendor still supporting and releasing updates for a 6-year-old operating system.
Jeremy
It is not a joke. It is a preview. Not even a beta. Whining on the HDD requirements at that stage seems a bit stupid, really.
I could say as much about Vista. Your point?
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Hrm, lack of substance in a twitter comment, shouldn't really be surprised.
Fuck you big time Microsoft, I'm much more happy with my hackintosh than any crappy M$ system. Thanks, mister Jobs for bringing the OS X system to the X86 world and thanks to all the hackers who made it possible to install it on an unmodified standard pc.
This is really nothing new, Windows 9x, 2k, and XP were all turds when they were first released. Driver maturity, application refinements, hardware improvements, and service packs all make the experience more tolerable.
No, this kind of performance is specific to M$. Apple and Sun manage upgrades without too many tears. Free software does even better. Debian upgrades from Potato to Woody to Sarge and then to Etch in the same time frame were flawless as long as you did not gum up the works with non free software. Of all the distributions, M$ is the worst.
I'm sick of the status quo and expected a much better OS when Vista was first released.
Dump Windows. The sooner you do it, the more time and money you will save.
If it took 9 months of driver development and OS improvements - then it shouldn't have been released 9 months early.
Don't forget the five or six years it took them to get that far. The waste is intentional.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
My experience is that it Just Works. Everything is set up with a minimum of hassle and prompting, the defaults are sensible, and most of the eye candy has at least some redeeming value. ... I'm not a huge Vista booster or anything. The above makes me sound like I am,
That's the way I would describe Mepis, Ubuntu or any other reasonable gnu/linux distribution.
Others have described Vista as anything but well organized, convenient or functional. You can start with the GUI you praise and go from there to the usual anti-competitive crap and brand new restrictions that fuck everyone but M$. No one, but softies say what you do. Not even the Wintel rag people like Vista. Even Dvorak says Vista should be scrapped. That makes you the only Vista booster around.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.