The issue isn't stability. KDE 4 was quite stable in my experience. The issue is feature completeness. They have a stable starting product, but it lacks all of the features that end users want. A "beta" or "RC" product indicates instability, not feature incompleteness.
I haven't had too much luck with the Octane I've been playing with (ok, it's been like a year now). Gentoo is fun on it, but, I can't seem to even get X working with it (X DOES work from the old live cd though, so I know it can be done).
I would imagine that different components that run on XP will recieve updates so long as they are XP compatible - MS will contiune IE/WMP updates so long as they don't have to go out of the way to support XP.
Never use the term "This never happens". Someone can prove you wrong. Also, Windows XP does forcibly reboot itself. I do believe that they removed that in Vista.
I certainly haven't been bribed, and I can attest to Windows 7 outperforming Vista by leaps and bounds, and on some systems outperforming XP (Laptop, 1.7GHz Celeron M, 1.5GB RAM)
My point exactly - bundling isn't a necessity. And, because of lack of bundling, we have choices. apt-get install lynx (or yum install or rpm -hiv or emerge) is just as simple, removal is simple, and, wait, we can chose a default browser rather then being given one!
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My point was - if it is an industry standard, then why don't I see it used anywhere I go? Not at home, work or school (and MP4 != H.264).
Since when is H.264 industry standard?
When they cut boot time for Fedora 9 I seem to remember the test system being a Pentium 3.
The issue isn't stability. KDE 4 was quite stable in my experience. The issue is feature completeness. They have a stable starting product, but it lacks all of the features that end users want. A "beta" or "RC" product indicates instability, not feature incompleteness.
Only some of the libraries are required. The rest of the KDE applications are not.
NT ran on a lot of stuff, why not do it again?
As a karate and aikido practitioner, I agree. Perhaps we could mod them into Randori bots?
At my college one of the guys in Admissions has the plate "1337"
I haven't had too much luck with the Octane I've been playing with (ok, it's been like a year now). Gentoo is fun on it, but, I can't seem to even get X working with it (X DOES work from the old live cd though, so I know it can be done).
The "Classic" Start Menu, much like the program manager, was deprecated (XP for Classic, 95 for Progman) and removed (7 For Classic, 2k for Progman).
Start Button -> (Right Click) Computer -> Advanced System Settings -> Perfomance -> Adjust for best perfomance
Actually, I think just unchecking Use Visual Styles does the trick.
My Mac went from OS X 10.0 to 10.1 (and up to 10.1.5) without any cost to me.
I would imagine that different components that run on XP will recieve updates so long as they are XP compatible - MS will contiune IE/WMP updates so long as they don't have to go out of the way to support XP.
I'm posting from Mac OS 10.5 on a PowerMac G4 (800MHz, 2001) with 1.25GB of RAM. I must say that it runs extremely well.
Never use the term "This never happens". Someone can prove you wrong. Also, Windows XP does forcibly reboot itself. I do believe that they removed that in Vista.
I stayed away from 9 myself, and then found that 10 after some updates returned most sanity to the Fedora universe.
I seem to be able to find Octanes rather cheap, and I can have Gentoo up in running on them in under a week.
I certainly haven't been bribed, and I can attest to Windows 7 outperforming Vista by leaps and bounds, and on some systems outperforming XP (Laptop, 1.7GHz Celeron M, 1.5GB RAM)
Afterstep anyone?
My point exactly - bundling isn't a necessity. And, because of lack of bundling, we have choices. apt-get install lynx (or yum install or rpm -hiv or emerge) is just as simple, removal is simple, and, wait, we can chose a default browser rather then being given one!
wget?
Linux doesn't come with a browser. It gives you the option to aquire one, but doesn't have to come with one. (emerge -vat firefox works great btw)
actually, with kexec, you don't even have to reboot to change the running kernel.
They know that they can't win, so that's not a thought path to consider.
We'll probably get some RC's just like with Vista.
Oh, and the MSDN beta expires in August as well...