hahaha..nice. this is what i like about klug. far from perfect
but teaches me a thing or two every now and then. special mention for
hard wired, the brightest guy here (an honest opinion), never fails to
impress me everytime.
room for improvement: later
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From: "Kristopher Julius Alcordo"
To: "Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List"
Subject: Re: [klug] [OS-Win] Vista was launched... will you bite?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:35:33 +0800
Nice post... Can I post this on my blog and ofcourse credit you for
it..
On 2/16/07, hard wyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
I beg to disagree on the following:
"sooner or later it will take over (80% or 90%) of the world,
just like the old windows did (statistics say so)"
"support for devices will follow sooner than expected"
"mr. torvalds himself or his emissaries have taken time disecting
vista to figure out what makes it tick or if mr. gates has some
nasty secrets hidden in it"
Take at look at the "real" trend and closely observe the actual
movement that is happening.
One, Vista isn't and will not take over the world. How so? The
64-bit code base is not ready. Look it up. Mac OS X is ripe
compared to Vista on the 64-bit front. I got the heads up from an
insider over at Cupertino, Calif. (a close family friend, who
will by the way come to CDO this March to visit. He's doing Mac
OS X G5 XServers if anybody wants to know) regarding the next
move Steve Jobs will make. Releasing OS X without the hardware
will be in by middle 2008. Linux by the way has already gained
21% market share (2005 figure) while Windows dropped considerably
and most notably in the datacenter, and figures for the corporate
market will come in by middle of 2007. Vista adoption is NOT in
the drawing board for many companies due to hardware and cost
considerations. Go to Cebu and you'll find companies
realistically doesn't move desktops much. They still use Win2K
and XP.
Linus Torvalds have not used Windows. Why? He uses a Mac OS X G5
laptop, and of course Linux. He worked at Transmeta which is a
competitor to Intel. And to correct you on that, the reverse is
happening. Microsoft has organized a Linux Laboratory late 2006
deep inside its Redmond, Washington campus. Again, look it up. In
other words, MS is taking a look at Linux at what makes the new
Linux toys tick! And I'm talking about the Xgl, AIGLX, Beryl,
plus the virtualization technologies of the Xen Hypervisor that
is being shipped on both Red Hat and SuSE Linux Enterprise
servers. It wants to have built in virtualization because it
doesn't have one built in. That's envy!
Oh, closely examine what Vista has inside. Gadgets? it imitated
Mac OS X widgets. The Vista Sidebar? imitated Mac OS X Dashboard.
It even imitated the 3D Chess! :)). For security, it finally
learned its lesson and imitated how Unix, Linux, and Macs behave
in terms of user control. Oh, did I mention MS is afraid that
Novell will go after it because it "stole" the directory services
technology and implemented it on Active Directory? Novell had it
first with NDS/eDirectory :)).
The case of Vista at home? As usual, its what I call the "pied
piper effect". Those who believed the marketing hype, as well as
the occassional "threat" tend to bite the bait.
Driver support? A lot of XP hardware doesn't yet run on Vista.
Hardware and applications for 32-bit XP doesn't even function
well with 64-bit XP. We've done the test, doesn't work on Vista
64-bit.
On the topic of using "pirated" ? I'm proud to say, I'm using the
latest Alpha Release of ReactOS. If you haven't heard of it, look
it up. Pure open source, coded from the ground up. It's not yet
very stable but already comparable to XP. And yes, full binary
compatibility to the MS product including the drivers. And no, it
is not a rip off. It is built on the same way Linux was built
based on Unix from the ground up. Full release of ReactOS slated
for 2008. User-friendly Beta Release mid-2007. A free windows
compatible for all.
I'm running away laughing! :) Not a cent wasted for Windows Tax.
Relax.
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