> just wait till you see what they got in xp. it's hilarious.
Awww ! Go on, please tell, I could do with a laugh ! I was sent a copy of
Dev Studio .NET Beta 2 in the post courtesy of M$. Boy was I shocked ! The
last contact I had with M$ resulted in my MSDN account being "removed" (fear
not, I am not an M$ fan or mole !!!) This was several years ago now and was
very influential in my investigating and subsequent migration to Linux ! If
you really want to drive people away their is nothing like silencet to a few
difficult questions followed by striking them off the mailing list on the
receipt of a slightly heated mail !!!) Anyway, I was intrigued. I tried to
install it on the old Win 98 setup I have, only to get half way through the
initial "Visual Studio must upgrade you setup" section to be told that Dev
Studio .NET would not load onto a Win 98 system and I would need NT or 2000 !
At that point I new this was going to be good ! Is it not possible for M$ to
do an OS check up front rather than half way through "Copying files...". I
managed to find a copy of Window$ 2000 in Micro Mart (you didn't think I
would pay more than a few quid for M$ crap did you ? M$ obviously did !!!). I
dug around and found an old hard disk and started the install, and started
the install, and started the install, and started the install - oh dear it
couldn't cope with LILO at all ! So I bit the bullet, backed it up, and went
for a reformat from scratch install. Ahhh ! The joy ! I had forgotten just
how bad an M$ install is ! Hopeless under estimates of the "time left" and a
complete system freeze whenever I tried to say that I wanted a UK key board !
Still, finally got it up (so to speak !), booted in for the first time (well
about 5th really) and lo, verily there was no mouse !!! Dug out an old serial
mouse and started to install Dev Studio .NET beta 2, complete with .NET
Framework (whatever that is !). For some reason it kept telling me that it
required only a minute to install, still, an hour or so later it was
installed and I was ready to go. Start a new project and ...... "dive C:\
full" !!!! Window$ 2000 and ONE application had just eaten some 3Gb of hard
disc space ! Still, it was an interesting insight into developments at
Redmond, where can I get a CRAY cheap !
Owen
On Sunday 16 Sep 2001 3:36 am, you wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> >> (and now I can't do anything else than asking we switch from
> >> the Linux kernel to a less bloated kernel if any).
> >
> > Something like KERNEL32.EXE from Win2k? (-:
>
> just wait till you see what they got in xp. it's hilarious.
