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.
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.
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.
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.