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Hey,
they promised to release Vista Embedded within 3 months from the Vista desktop release... This should be a great improvements in our embedded devices, while I am still wondering if our hardware is capable of running it...
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And still I see so many organizations and retail shops in Chennai sticking to Windows NT 4.0 and still Windows 98. 
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I'm actually planning to keep Windows 2003 around for a few more years (as my workstation computer). If I'm ever moving, it would be to a Linux system, and then port all my .NET code to Mono. I don't foresee any reason I'd move to Vista. It's bloated as ever (such as with DRM).
Force might be a good option to pick.
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True. My work PC is Windows 2000 powered and home PC Windows XP.
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RedHat Linux is cool
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Behind The Scene wrote: then port all my .NET code to Mono
You actually can use GTK on Windows, as well as Windows-Forms on Linux.
But Windows forms is proprietary, and Microsoft can stop mono from supporting it (it can't with C#).
So GTK-Sharp would be the open way to go - but it looks different than Windows forms.
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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Isn't Novell working with Microsoft to give Mono some Windows Forms support?
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Behind The Scene wrote: sn't Novell working with Microsoft to give Mono some Windows Forms support?
Misinformed?
Subject to FUD?
Read here[^]!
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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jhwurmbach wrote: You actually can use GTK on Windows
You can, but then why on earth would you want to? GTK on Windows sucks big time, and they *still* have not fixed repaint/resize issues that have plagued them for many years on the Win32 platform. Yech 
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Behind The Scene wrote: If I'm ever moving, it would be to a Linux system, and then port all my .NET code to Mono.
Just be sure to run Mono Migration Analyzer[^] first, or you may be sorry
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Thanks a lot! This should make anyone's life easier moving away from the Microsoft.NET Framework.
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I moved to 100% gentoo linux at home on both of my machines in the Summer of 2004 and I am very happy especially that I don't have to deal with antivirus software, popup blockers and spyware. There is also one added bonus. At home I do not have visual studio installed so I that prevents me from taking my work (at least my programming stuff) home with me as I did in the past. However since I have converted all my departments servers to gentoo as well I guess I do some remote administration at home...
John
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I run Ubuntu on my spare-parts box, and have done some work with Mono on it (zilch spare time in the last 9 months has made me disengage, however, from the project I originally was interested in  . If I were you, I'd wait until a proper debugger chain was available for Mono on linux before planning to migrate your .NET code there. They're working on it now (have been for awhile...), but it's just not there yet.
Behind The Scene wrote: It's bloated as ever (such as with DRM).
I run it at home, and I'm not sure what folks are talking about in regards to the bloat - I don't see much in the way of bloat (memory-wise, at least, which is what I assume you were referring to).
I'm still dazzled by the uber-sexiness of the UI, personally :blush:. I'm looking to getting my Ubuntu box to running xgl (I think that's what it's called, at least), but I have to sort out driver issues first... Well, to be honest, Vista is the very first time I can say that I was equally concerned about driver issues for both MS and Linux OS's 
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...but I don't use it much (I dual boot XP and Vista).
Reason : my video card is not hot enough for Vista 
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I changed it, 2 days ago
Now I have a Geforce xfx 6200 with 256MB of memory, not earth-shaking, but good enough for my AGP8X slot and also best for my pocket(cost only 65$ to me);P
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: but I don't use it much
Dang. I was going to say that!
Marc
Thyme In The CountryPeople are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith
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I should be getting mine in the mail in a few weeks. I get a free upgrade with the laptop I bought.
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I watched so many people's systems crash and burn with new MicroSmurf systems - Even awaiting SP1 is somewhat on the early side.
Some of you may not to care, but it takes me a serious amount of time and effort to build up fresh drive to where I like it. The pleasure in this has long since passed - especially when it's due to a crash in a defective operating system. My time is worth more than money or being the first kid on the block.
Jumping on a new MS System thinking it will not give you misery? Let me yet, again, quite Clever Albert (Einstein):
"Insanity is when you do the same thing over and over, and expect different results"
This, with an MSDN subscription, is quite a mouthfull: I already 'own' vista, and can simply download it. But I know better.
Balboos
"We're Microsoft. We don't give a damn - - - we don't have to!"
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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And I've seen just as many (actually, more) frustrations on versions of Linux, mainframes with Unix, and swanky new white boxes with MacOS.
All OSs have issues. Some just pretend more than others that they don't.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I will certainly admit that grief and frustration are available from any OS (and other) software.
The difference is in the cavalier attitude with which Microsoft will release unready software upon the users. It would, based upon past experience, an exceptional event, indeed, if major Sevice Packs were not unleashed now that the hordes of the real beta-testers lay down their money and load up their systems.
I don't seem to recall Bill Gates' charming visage on the network news pronouncing a well-earned "mea culpa" in the past.
So, although we may fundamentally agree on the truth to the statement that all of the OS's will dispense grief at one time or another, I maintain that MS has earned a special niche in that reguard.
Keep your hands warm and your feet dry!
Balboos
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Is this reply translated by a machine? Whatever...
cheers,
</wqw>
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Last night on the news:
Request from Apple to iPod owners not to upgrade to VISTA - it seems to cause some serious problems to the iPods. Some other manufacturers of devices have joined this chorus. And, as usual, the first to install a new MS product are the first to get their 3 R's:
Right Royally Reamed.
"DOH!"
I downloaded Ubuntu 6.06.1 last night.
Keep your hands warm and your feet dry!
(I don't own an iPod).
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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With my home computer, I'll possibly stick with XP forever.
There ist no need to go deeper into the swamp than I'm used to:
Windows is gradually replaced by Linux and/or FreeBSD
At work, we just dropped NT4-Support, and Vista is installed on one Test-Computer. We see to our software working with the new Vista privilege system, but the computers we ship will have XP on them until Microsoft disallows it.
So no need to hurry.
"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation."
-- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.
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Around 3 days ago I was wondering about suggesting a new question for weekly poll, Guess what it was?
Yes, When will you start using Vista?
People think just the same sometimes
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