I am waiting NOT jumping on vista. We do have win xp here, mac and hopefully linux soon.I tried one distro but backed off til after jan 1 so I can get the hardware right and a distro that matches it/drivers. My husband was all excited about vista until I pointed out a few things
1) To run anything but the 'basic vista' requires a very souped up machine. I am saying at least 256 video ram, at least 1 gb regular ram and 2 would be better. I see computers for sale all over the place announcing themselves as 'vista ready'. The vista most of them are capable of may have less functionality than xp home. In fact, xp home looks pretty good when I look at the 'vista' that those computers are going to slug along with. It is horrible, all these people are going to be buying computers which are not really capable of running any of the interesting parts of it they think they will. Hp pretty much spells that out on their site. But, Hp as a company is much different than MS. They tend to spend more time in research, fixing problems before they launch, where the opposite is true of MS. 2)There was a compatibility issue in xp service pack 2 with norton firewall. The ITs found you have to turn off xp firewall to run another firewall.Many of us with xp did not put sp2 on until that was resolved. But ms has really been pushing their 'windows defender' of which their firewall is a part. If you go to ms.com and check the vista tab under 'the windows family', you will hear them talking about it being the most secure windows, but at least part of that 'most secure' is their own 'defender'. I advised my husband to wait until we find out if you CAN turn it off as u can in xp. I know norton is a company just like mcafee, and there must be really good open source firewalls too, but the very reason I am not on Linux on my other laptop is because the firewall that came with the first distro I got did not seem any better than the one in xp, imo. What I mean is that the firewall did not set defaults, you had to configure it vs the better firewalls which do set defaults but allow you to set exceptions if you chose. Many are not security experts, and I am not. I have been on MS security news groups, asked questions about how to not be hacked and they talk all about how to set the browser, not one word about the fact that you do not have to be on a browser or reading email to be hacked.You just have to be connected and sometimes still get hacked w/o connection remotely if ports are open. Nor do they tell anyone that there is something called 'the wins network' which shows as always connected on the linux side when you are not online 3) I got a paid distro of oo and in xp, it has been giving me lots of error messages, where I never had a problem with the downloaded one. I think they packaged it with a few other things , the last 2 cds would not open. When I checked, the file system looked Linux, duh. So, if we are having some problems with 00 and excel, access etc, IMO you can expect more problems with vista, and/or office 2007. Laura --- "Kirill S. Palagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Octave.stiernon > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 6:44 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A > SUMMARY HERE > > Windows VISTA > > > > I think soon take the indows Vista version.Think > you that > > this version is compatible with Vista? > > > > Thanks > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Rates near historic lows - $200,000 mortgage for $660/ month - http://yahoo.ratemarketplace.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
