Posted on 07/21/2009 6:03:07 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I’m sorry, I can’t get past Linux’s font rendering. It’s like they said “OS X renders fonts too thick! Let’s do the exact opposite!”
I guess that makes it a real exciting time to be a Windows user, with Windows 7 on the horizon.
By the way, I run my web business off of 4 CentOS rack-mount Dells and an IBM Blade. But I am done wasting my time with Linux on the desktop.
ubuntu was the first decent desktop OS for linux, but it still has major issues. However, they are definitely going in the right direction. I suspect in another 10 years they will be able to start to compete on the desktop. But by then...will the desktop even be where the action is?
My SuSE 11.1 partition boots at least 3 times faster than my Windows XP partition on the same box. Heck, that’s even with the Linux on an IDE drive and XP on a Sata drive.
I just can’t understand why every bit of software installed on Windows has to have some process running constantly.
It can? Point me to a product, please. I'd like to see it.
Probably so it loads faster.
When you are running a server that has a few hundred days of uptime, not having to reboot is a big deal!
"Because the current USB 3.0 spec is currently not signed off, we're challenged and we won't have support for USB 3.0 in Windows 7 at RTM (release to manufacturing)," Lars Giusti of Microsoft said in a WinHEC session here titled "USB Technology Update and Windows Strategy."As far as booting goes, Windows or Linux, the best thing you can do to improve it is get an SSD. I've found it makes a world of difference.
That's the point of the article--Linux will be the first OS to support USB 3.0.
Windows XP didn’t support Wifi until SP2 either, device manufacturers just provided their own drivers until then.
As far as SSD goes, I have a Dell Mini on an 8gig SSD, and I know it’s faster (though the small memory and limited processor limit it), but I don’t know if it’s worth the immense price differential from a regular drive yet.
You're right, out of the box Microsoft won't. As I mentioned in the other post, Windows didn't support 802.11b wifi out of the box until XP SP2 in 2004. Manufacturers wrote their own drivers until then (and still do, much to my dismay).
That being said, Asus will, without a doubt, release Windows drivers the date that it's commercially available. It would make no business sense to not do that.
But as for having support built into the kernel, if Linux wants to claim that they are first, then they probably will get that title.
I've started to think about building a new box that will last me another ten years, like my current P2. :)
I figure a board that runs USB 3.0, and dual Quad-core CPUs, with tons a RAM space oughta do the trick. This board looks like it's a contender.
You clearly aren't thinking about servers, or else you are so locked into the Windows constant-reboot mindset that you don't realize that rebooting production servers is not a good thing.
> ...USB 3.0 devices (that Windows can already use...)
Nope, maybe you mean "USB 2.0". USB 3.0 is still in development, host-side hardware is just beginning to appear (and is not supported), and 3.0 devices are still essentially vaporware. 3.0 will be real, but it ain't real yet.
> that makes it a real exciting time to be a Windows user, with Windows 7 on the horizon.
Win 7 is likely to be well received by the consumer market. The corporate market is less excited. I've been using the RC for months; it's not bad, it runs pretty well, but really it's just Vista SP3 with "Vista" crossed out and "Win7" written in crayon.
Yeah I was wondering if there were USB 3.0 devices for sale today. I know some were demoed at CES, but I’ve never seen anything actually for sale. AFAIK there won’t be any USB stuff available until 2010.
I’ve got an Dell E6400 with an Intel X25-M (80GB). When I bought it about 6 months ago, it cost me around $800 CDN. Today you can get one for half that. By the end of the year it likely half again.
I can get around 4.5 hours of battery life on my laptop, the speed is great. I’d never go back to a regular HD.
Wow! Are you a masochist?! I've used motherboards newer than yours for target practice in my back yard :)
Great points - we just spec’d out a Dell E6500 for a coworker and saw the upgrade to a SSD was $105 more for a fourth of the space (64g vs 250g), and $255 more for half of the space (128 vs 250g) of the 7200RPM with free fall sensor.
If we thought he’d ever notice a difference, we might have given it some thought!
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