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Still running XP?
dankles:
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--- Quote from: xShadow on August 05, 2009, 05:59:41 AM ---You know, I never thought Red Hat actually "existed" anywhere near me, but I was surprised. One time, I went into my math professor's office (at least this is where I think I saw it) here on campus, saw him bring up something similar to the start menu, and it had "Red Hat" somewhere on there. I haven't seen it since then, but that was one extremely random encounter... in the place I least expected to see it. I wonder if they simply bought all of the math professors (in that building) computers that had Red Hat on them. We have an absolute shitload of computers on campus, so I guess it's not surprising you'd find one like that eventually, but meh...
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Red Hat is used mostly on servers hidden away in data centers. The more user friendly everyday people version is called Fedora.
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Just a question then... did Red Hat move in where Novell use to hold a nice chunk of control?
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Huh? Novell are the ones that came into the linux game latter on.
And I wouldn't exactly say that Fedora is more friendly, it has all ways had the feel of Alpha(not even beta) software. I've never installed it with out at least one thing to go wrong. So in that regard, I'd rather the older and more solid RHEL on my desktop with the right software repositories setup to get some later versions of packages.
Anyways, I'm OT
naarcissus:
I have a c2d 2.0 and 3 gigs of ram that came w/ XP Pro. I was reinstalling the damn thing once or twice a month cause of weird ass problems. Been running Vista X64 sp1 since december of 2008 and have yet to have a serious issue. I love it. 'Course I like OSX better, but I haven't been able to afford another mac since my iMac G5 died :'(. I especially like UAC, I just wish it was a little more customizable and didn't have the option to turn it off cause I've run into alot of programs that specifically tell you to turn it off in order to run. And it would be nice if it had an actual root or godmode account.
and all this BS about people wouldn't switch to Vista because it wasn't compatible w/ either their XP software or hardware(or both) but want to get W7 is bogus, because the XP mode in vista requires a newer machine w/ hardware assisted virtualization extensions like Intel VT or AMD-V. Since a vm it requires even more power to run old programs with W7.
In summary I run Vista and will probably upgrade to W7 by the time it reaches SP1
Sosseres:
The thing is that people wouldn't switch to vista since they had a lot of those programs that wouldn't work. Over a few years the amount of those programs has decreased either through newer versions or through different programs.
I had to install a virtual machine in order to run a 16 bit program yesterday, I mounted the ordinary windows XP for that.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on August 05, 2009, 03:00:30 PM ---The thing is that people wouldn't switch to vista since they had a lot of those programs that wouldn't work. Over a few years the amount of those programs has decreased either through newer versions or through different programs.
I had to install a virtual machine in order to run a 16 bit program yesterday, I mounted the ordinary windows XP for that.
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I have many "IT problems" to deal with at work due to Vista based grief. Display errors, screwed up calculations etc. in certain accounting programs. It also comes with funny XP vs Vista issues (where an ip address is shared for some odd reason. Think 2x computers with let's say xxx.xxx.x.104, because the router pays attention to vista's ipv6 but ignores of the v4).
It took me a LOT of discussion with them to install Windows server 2008 over 2003 on their i7 920 Server. "2003 is based on XP and more proven, etc. etc. etc. vs But I don't think 2003 fully supports i7 hardware etc. and 700 vs 900 dollars is not worth the savings if you need to upgrade the software later on due to ms dropping support etc."
itemno23886:
I use being cheap as an excuse not to use vista. But in reality, I'm prolly berrter off running in some Linux distro simply because I'd rather pack terabytes upon terabytes of data than play a game.
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