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Title: Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: MainMaN on November 10, 2003, 03:51:31 am The next generation windows machine... So what OS is it gona use? Obviously XP has gone to the shits. Microsoft anouced to save their efferts into making a decent OS. Code named Longhorn. They all claimed it was gona be better than Panther! release date is in 2005.
Heres a info note on whats gona be in it: http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/longhorn.asp Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Typhy on November 10, 2003, 03:54:30 am Yes, they announced it about 6 months ago. Blue text upon blue buttons. . . It'll be another shit OS. There are people out there who say that XP owns Panther, I guess in some ways it's a matter of opinion. Btw, I might add that to take advantage of all the "features", it'll require 128Megs of VRAM.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Mr. Lothario on November 10, 2003, 07:16:45 am What Microsoft says: "Better than Panther." What Microsoft means: "We're going to have two years to reverse-engineer the Panther UI." What you hear: "It's still going to be a bug- and security-hole-ridden piece of crap, now with DRM!"
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: |MP|Nomad on November 10, 2003, 02:59:10 pm Lothario, DRM?
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: *DAMN Elandrion on November 10, 2003, 04:26:40 pm DRM = Digital Rights Management
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: MainMaN on November 10, 2003, 04:35:31 pm 6 months ago? damn...
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Jeb on November 11, 2003, 01:55:50 am If its actually stable it would be nice.
I don't care what anyone says about xp being stable, it crashes like a bitch every 30minutes (usually IE hangs when loading a html doc off a server on the network), and Dreamweaver crashes every so often. Not to mention the randomness of windows networking. I really hope they make a good OS so i don't have to redo work because of an application crash. Oh the DRM will be great fun also, time to switch to linux to maintain that "illegal" mp3 collection, not to mention the fun that required product activation is. www.eff.org woot woot Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: KoS Ultimo on November 11, 2003, 04:16:02 pm I'm running XP and I never crash.....
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: mainman2lazy on November 11, 2003, 04:28:52 pm I crash, the same ratio as i breath.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: BTs_Mysterio on November 11, 2003, 10:17:35 pm Ultimo, we all know you crash. Stop trolling, either stop spamming PC propaganda or leave.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Cow on November 11, 2003, 10:33:52 pm longhorn will be better then panter, a 2 year old operating system. apple will prolly have updated OSX to 10.5 by then, apple takes damn good care of their OS they already released 10.3.1.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Typhy on November 11, 2003, 11:04:46 pm Only time XP has crashed for me is when it got hit by the virus attacks. Other than that, other that being an ugly piece of shit and a royal pain in the ass, it runs fine.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on November 13, 2003, 06:21:09 pm Only time XP has crashed for me is when it got hit by the virus attacks. Other than that, other that being an ugly piece of shit and a royal pain in the ass, it runs fine. Don't forget the average of 5 critical security bugs a month. =D The problem with XP is that is still has windows 3.1 code in it. Along with 95, 98, NT 4, you get the picture. They've been building and building on the same code base, without flushing it for a full rewrite. I've read estimates that up to 40% of the code in XP is never actually used, because it's been replaced by new code, but never deleted out. Longhorn is supposed to be a completely new OS from the ground up (ala OS X was for Mac). But I'll believe it when I see it. Not to mention that it's still 2 years away. Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Mr. Lothario on November 13, 2003, 08:32:56 pm Well, OS X was hardly a from-scratch rewrite. Most of OS X's code was adopted from the NeXt OS. It was new from the perspective of the existing OS 1-9 codebase, however, so in that sense, your statement is true. Either way, it was a good thing.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on November 13, 2003, 11:53:32 pm I know that they followed the NeXt model, but did they really use any of the NeXt code base? Not counting BSD of course.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Mr. Lothario on November 14, 2003, 01:35:37 am I don't have the time at the moment to do the research, but from what I remember, getting the source code to the NeXt OS was Apple's primary reason for acquiring NeXt, and OS X wound up being mostly NeXt code behind the scenes.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on November 14, 2003, 01:49:28 am The way I remember it, it was more getting the NeXt engineers / code slingers in house. But I'm not sure either.
Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Blufire on November 14, 2003, 02:27:22 am I know that they followed the NeXt model, but did they really use any of the NeXt code base? Not counting BSD of course. Cocoa. Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: Blitz on November 19, 2003, 06:57:10 am Short and sweet... Thank you blu! We love you!
Blitz 8) PS. I work with a Dell 800 mhz XP machine (the only thing that runs fast on it is... Um.... what... Lets see... IE... Nope... Netscape 7.1 doesnt even work... Ah yes! BOOTING UP!) It freezes up! Title: Re:Next Generation PC, XP no more! Post by: BFG on November 20, 2003, 01:59:14 am Oh my god.. Just read that FAQ about Longhorn... If only i could get my hands on that shit for brains guy who wrote it... Argh they make my blood boil... How could one guy be so annoying?
Just imagine where OSX will be in two years time... god i would like to smack a windows geek inthe face right now... argh windows and drink make bfg mad! |