Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@googlemail.com:
Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe)
I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic?
I forget...)
I'm pretty sure that's just XKCD.
And it's certainly
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Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi
the following wiki pedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone
could imagine there was a column for ubuntu which features (or
2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@googlemail.com:
Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe)
I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic?
I forget...)
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Vinothan Shankar wrote:
Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi
the following wiki pedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone
could imagine there was a column for ubuntu
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Hi
the following wiki pedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone
could imagine there was a column for ubuntu which features (or equilvent
) would be ticked, for
On 06/08/09 00:51, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full
of those really annoying popups at all.
a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated
and
Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
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Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99
:-) Getting mine for £44
Still thinking of using it in a VM.
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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:34 +0100, Gordon wrote:
Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
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Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99
Surely that a description of Kubuntu?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat.
If you pay £219.99
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
OS with virtually no applications
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue
hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
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I have been running the Windows 7 beta under parallels for the iMac and it
runs a treat. I have also tried it in virtualbox running in a virtual
instance of Ubuntu on the iMac and again it performs really well.
Both tests out performed a native install on a dell 620 laptop (ok I know my
iMac is
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, a couple of times with various betas under VirtualBox...
It runs fine, and has nice wallpaper... :)
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:05:40 +0100
From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
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Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, I managed to get it running on VirtualBox. Basically as long as
you can give it enough memory (I think it's a minimum of 512MB, but more
ideally about 1 to 2GB) then it should work okay. Of course it'll
Mike Paglia wrote:
I have been running the Windows 7 beta under parallels for the iMac
and it runs a treat. I have also tried it in virtualbox running in a
virtual instance of Ubuntu on the iMac and again it performs really well.
You can VirtualBox on Ubuntu which was running in a VM?
That's
I have done it as well, in VMware (I downloaded a premade VMware image
of Windows 7). It worked okay, but I will not be buying a copy or using
it regularly. It is not as good as Linux, and although an improvement on
Vista, it is still not good value for money. Although the free beta
which
On 05/08/09 12:05, Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yep.
It ran fine in a VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu.
I hated it. Win7 was chock full of those really annoying popups and
wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
It didn't
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 19:13 +0100, Alan Lord (News)
alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
those really annoying popups and
wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
How I love those. Tell us more.
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On 05/08/09 12:05, Gordon wrote:
Anyone done this?
If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yep.
It ran fine in a VirtualBox VM on Ubuntu.
I hated it. Win7 was chock full of those really
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full
of those really annoying popups at all.
a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated
and it was fine
b. I don't remember any
On 17/07/09 02:39, Liam Proven wrote:
snip /
There is a chance for Linux, but it's a very tough battle ahead.
Unfortunately, I think the bad experiences of hundreds of thousands of
people with Linux netbooks will put them off for a long time to come.
I don't think it is as bad as the press
Well i have down loaded installed Window 7 RC 7100 and at first glance yes
there seems to be a likeness to quite a few Linux OS's and for that matter
Mac OS X as well, but i think Micro$oft have learned from their failing of
Vista. So what i would say is to the Linux guy they better wake up cos
2009/7/16 Robert Flatters robert.flatt...@googlemail.com:
Well i have down loaded installed Window 7 RC 7100 and at first glance yes
there seems to be a likeness to quite a few Linux OS's and for that matter
Mac OS X as well, but i think Micro$oft have learned from their failing of
Vista. So
Just saw this on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84367553_1?ie=UTF8docId=1000321063pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLEpf_rd_s=special-product-offers-3pf_rd_r=0VK1CGRWR4HF3J8C5951pf_rd_t=201pf_rd_p=470371973pf_rd_i=B002DUCMT2
[Quote]
*4. Does Windows 7 come with a Web Browser?*
Has anybody seen this, and does anybody have Windows 7 to compare.
I find this quite interesting though.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2770tag=nl.e550
John
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John wrote:
Has anybody seen this, and does anybody have Windows 7 to compare.
I find this quite interesting though.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2770tag=nl.e550
John
I did have Windows 7 installed, in fact I'll be sticking it on the
wife's PC this week too. I'd agree with some of
My two lads use only one thing outside of web browser and that is games and
that's changing as they prefer Eve rather than paying through the nose for
buggy software.
I personally, am a Google fan so do everything via that with only my Story
'Writers cafe' software separately. when that appears
What is Moblin, I have an Acer One with Ubuntu 9.04 on it, what does it
do? Does it run off the netbook or what?
John
Dale Clarke wrote:
My two lads use only one thing outside of web browser and that is
games and that's changing as they prefer Eve rather than paying
through the nose for
John
Just go here http://moblin.org/
Its a Linux Foundation project.
Dale
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
What is Moblin, I have an Acer One with Ubuntu 9.04 on it, what does it
do? Does it run off the netbook or what?
John
Dale Clarke wrote:
My two lads
My brother, who uses XP on a desktop and Vista on a laptop, has started
to ask questions about Ubuntu. Then, today, he sent me this:-
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/microsoft-announces-1.html
In return I sent him a CD with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and he has agreed to try
it. However, is
2008/10/22 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My brother, who uses XP on a desktop and Vista on a laptop, has started
to ask questions about Ubuntu. Then, today, he sent me this:-
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/microsoft-announces-1.html
In return I sent him a CD with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and he
Of norman
Sent: 22 October 2008 16:21
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Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7
My brother, who uses XP on a desktop and Vista on a laptop, has started
to ask questions about Ubuntu. Then, today, he sent me this:-
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/microsoft-announces-1.html
That link is definitely a joke.
Sean
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In return I sent him a CD with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and he has agreed to try
it. However, is Windows 7 a joke or what?
I like the Mac based based high security version and the EU version
designed to not do anything :-)
Graham
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7
In return I sent him a CD with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and he has agreed to try
it. However, is Windows 7 a joke or what?
I like the Mac based based high security version and the EU version
designed to not do anything :-)
Graham
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http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/microsoft-announces-1.html
Haha!! Love a good chuckle.
Theyre missing one:
Windows 7 Crash Free Edition:
:~$ uname -a
Windows 7 michael-desktop 2.6.39-8-generic #1 SMP Wed Oct 22 01:30:40
UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Haha!! Love a good
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