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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
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Randall Parker wrote:
> Tim Boyer wrote:
>
>> Huge new changes in the software.  You're the asking the equivalent of
>> 'Why
>> doesn't Windows just upgrade IE, OE, the TCP stack, and the gui
>> incrementally,
>> rather than going from 2K to XP'?
>
> Well, a lot of time went by between 2K and XP. We are talking 7 months
> from FC5 to FC6.
>


Yeah but

(A) You get sh*t all with windows. No Office apps, drawing tools, databases
etc.etc.etc. An OS + a GI + the very least that MS can get away with (e.g.
note/word pad)or require for competitive reasons (e.g. IE, OE, WMP)

(B) To what degree is the MS release schedule driven purely by the profit
motive rather than when s/w is ready etc. i.e. gotta get everyone onto Win2K &
only then....release XP & then get everyone onto XP & then...

etc.

Adam

>
>> For instance, Fedora Core 6 includes Xen with it, which took a bunch
>> of kernel
>> work to accomplish.  BTW, virtualization works _great_.
>
> Virtualization as in virtual machines? What are you using it for?
>

Running other OS'es for fun & interest? I tend to test upgrades by first trying
the live cd & then if it all looks OK, whipping an image of my current linux
into a VM & then upgrading it.

Adam

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