[SLE] M$ Gave Me A Vista Beta Licence For Free
The following is from a friend of mine who lives in Singapore....thought some of you would like his view of Vista. Fred _______________ The whole thing is stupid. Even when I was logged on as an administrator (root), they kept prompting me to click "Yes" in order to proceed with software installation and system changes. The OS was extremely sloooowww, crawling even though I wasn't using the Aero interface. The interface was manageable at best and bewildering at its worst. As for the setup, it was a breeze ONLY becos I've had plenty of experience in setting up Linux. With only 7-8 months to go, I'm quite certain that Vista is gonna end up worse than Windoze Millenium, which was a big flop. -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
About my experience with Windows Vista BETA2 x86 32-bit : Tested with Aero Glass Interface turned on. Yep - protecting Admin is stupid - it must have full previledge. The OS speed is very dependent on your PC - it takes a LOT of horse power. I got AMD 1.6 GHz 1 GB RAM and GeForce 5200 with 128 MB- and it works slow. It takes 850 MB of RAM *without* any big apps - just explorer, task manager, and control center -- with bare OS. So having 2 GB is real minimum for good work. My CPU is OK - about 10-40% loaded with bare OS. But graphics -- it's slow - the windows draggin is slow - multimedia player stucks once every 5 seconds for half a second - playeable but gives bad experience - installing latest nvidia drivers for vista didn't helped. GF5900 is 3 times more powerful than my card and should be OK. My recommendations would be something like AMD Athlon (XP or 64) 1.8 GHz, 2GB RAM, nVidia Geforce 5900 256 MB. My system works with Windows XP & SUSE Linux 10.0 *perfectly* -- no slowdowns.
With only 7-8 months to go, I'm quite certain that Vista is gonna end up worse than Windoze Millenium, which was a big flop.
currently it's byggy - but it's almost OK. I will use it at least for some puposes. (looking at i'ts Aero GUI) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Again, why is this junk on the main list? If I want to talk about NT 6.0 Longhorn Server or Longhorn Client (aka Vista), I'll go to several other lists I'm on. With that said, I'm going to answer this on the OT list. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------- The existence of Linux has far more to do with the breakup of AT&T's monopoly than anything Microsoft has ever done. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
participants (3)
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Alexey Eremenko
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Bryan J. Smith
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Fred A. Miller