Windows 7 - Linux showdown

One thing the article failed to pick up on is the boot times of linux. The time has to date been reduced to a minimum of 3 seconds. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5185504436.html

Also, Phoenix are developing a dual boot system, where Linux boots quickly and immediately makes email and the web browser available, and XP (or whatever other system) boots more slowly in the background.

As I understand, just about all distro developers are making a serious effort to reduce boot time. So far, early tests of windows seem to indicate that the system requirements are pretty similar to Vista, and I haven't read anything about improved boot time.

This could be a major factor, if Windows 7 takes a minute to boot, using the hard drive all the time, and chowing up battery power.
 
3 seconds...

and to think we was waiting something like 8 or 9 minutes for a 48k game to load on our 48k spectrums....... :D
 
The way I see it - Linux offers more flexibility for extra configurations and so on - whereas with Windows you are not allowed to modify the basic Windows installation package - and only M$ have the right to do so.

Besides, Windows activation is a huge pain in the nether regions.
 
somnambulist said:
I love supporting the underdog but linux will ultimately fail in the desktop market. Even Canonical hasn't made a profit to date. Unless ubuntu gets good looking like HP's MIE Linux os (which is based on ubuntu) they'll never get more personal consumers. Linux should stick to the server, enterprise & MID markets. Another weird thing is canonical is now gonna support ARM's cortex architecture for ultra low power netbooks & mid's , at this rate they spreading themselves too thin & we'll end up with more versions of ubuntu then vista !
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Canonical is not aiming yet at the word "profit".... their first target is to get a very stable base (still working on that).
 
Windows 7 has a pretty high resource requirement level... something that will hinder their "small notebook" target market... especially since they cannot even run Vista. Linux won't have too many issues with taking on Windows 7, especially considering that the different distributions of Linux are all becoming a lot better in the Look and Feel and user-friendliness compartments.
 
Well one important thing for me is hardware requirements. Right now I do not have the dosh to invest 7-10K for a new box. This is why my socket478 3Ghz P4 runs dual-boot XP and UBUNTU. Its about real cost of ownership.

BTW: If I had to pay R1200 for Ubuntu if the decided not to be free - I would, cause like XP, it has given me good value for money and a longterm relationship.
 
I can't complain about MS because I make my living on their products. That said, I didn't like the Vista bench results yet I gave it a chance only to reinstall XP in a rage. XP is a good OS, or it has been to me.

That said I hope Windows 7 is as much of a step from Vista as XP was after Windows ME (For me at least). Just thinking of Windows ME brings back horrible memories. I won't be holding my breath though....
 
Linux can be cool can be user friendly but its all up to the user and their level of knowledge. Personally i am sticking with XP, it came with my comp works with everything for now and should do the same for the next 3-4 years hopefully and by then either linux has evolved so that normal users can use it on a daily basis or google sorts the house that Gates built.
 
I would so move to linux Completely if I could play all my games without hassle...
3 sec boot up your joking right I wait way longer. almost the same as xp.
 
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