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chuckd on 07 May 2008
epsilon72 said:
chuckd said:
ssj12 said:
a12331 said:
i installed it on one of my computers and it made it much faster this is a +2 for microsoft. the only thing microsoft can do is make os. (imo)

no. XP and 2000 are their only good OSs. Vista sucks, 98 was ok, ME was failure, 3.1 was ok, the others suck.


NT
Do you mean windows 2000? The wikipedia article says that technically, Vista is an NT release.

@a12331 - yeah, hardware support can be a pain occasionally. Some of the simpler distros aren't that difficult to get working though. I started out knowing nothing, and here I am now using Gentoo happily for almost 9 months or so.


NT initially stood for "new technology" and was primarily used for networked computers. It was more stable than early versions of windows and had many more options for power users. Windows 2000 was it's direct successor. XP and Vista, for that matter, started with the NT source code. Windows 3.1 was basically DOS with a GUI, similar to how most linux distros now have a GUI.

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Nickelbackro on 07 May 2008

well off to a terminal with a high speed connection with my flash drive, service packs and dial up dont mix.



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GlingGling on 07 May 2008

What are people finding faster about service pack 3? Maybe my computer is simply too slow (2.4GHz P4, 1GB RAM) for it to make a difference.



a12331 on 07 May 2008
GlingGling said:
What are people finding faster about service pack 3? Maybe my computer is simply too slow (2.4GHz P4, 1GB RAM) for it to make a difference.

 it will make programs after a couple of days, because it has to cache all of your programs and what not



obieslut on 08 May 2008

which one do i download please.



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Mummelmann on 08 May 2008

Ooh, skeptcial, the first SP 2 shell I downloaded crashed my system twice, had to reinstall. I waited for the second "edition", that worked perfectly.
What issues have been addressed in SP 3 then SSJ? Performance increases would be nice, though ironically it would create an even bigger gap between XP and "gaming Windows, Vista"...



fazz on 08 May 2008

Hmmm... too bad I have a "Support freedom and not-as-expensive software" version of Windows... If you know what I mean ^^



Mummelmann on 08 May 2008
fazz said:
Hmmm... too bad I have a "Support freedom and not-as-expensive software" version of Windows... If you know what I mean ^^

 The SP's can still be installed, but it needs a fix. Won't be till a few weeks though, these things take a little time.



SnesTea on 08 May 2008
HeroeDeLeyenda said:
People that say Windos Vista sucks have never used it or their computers cant' handle i
        I got Vista and it is a piece of shit. XP FTW.  

 



Mistershine on 08 May 2008

I have a 'fix' for the activation in the new SP in you interested.