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Vista public BETA released

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toadlife:
Okay guys. I just know you're all dying to try what will surely be the greatest OS ever to be released, so have at it!!

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6081301.html

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx

piratePenguin:

--- Quote ---A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:

    * A modern processor (at least 800MHz1).
    * 512 MB of system memory.
    * A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable.
--- End quote ---
Whoops, I ***only*** have 256 MB RAM (it's enough for modern GNOME and modern KDE - even with all the cool+useless compiz effects turned on with Xgl (Vista definetly does NOT beat that stuff out-right)) - so my computer isn't Windows Vista Capable :(
More like - Windows Vista isn't my-PC Capable.

3.5 gigabytes, what the hell? Does it have a PDF viewer this time?

(Ubuntu comes with a PDF/PS viewer, BitTorrent client, IRC client (atleast one), IM client for MSN/Y!IM/Jabber/IRC/other-stuff-I've-hardly-heard-of (GAIM), office suite, DECENT graphics program (the gimp - better than paint), etcetc, all on ONE CD!)

emuelle1:
Windows, out of the box, still requires tons of extra software like Office.

I recently installed SuSE linux 10.1, and just from that install is practically everything I could possibly need on one computer, except maybe some advanced video editing tools.

I put the Office 07 beta on my laptop, and it bogged it down very badly. It won't uninstall correctly either. It was what I needed to begin switching over to Linux, which I've been putting off for a while.

7031:
Wouldn't mind trying it out but it would probably turn out to be crap. I have no computer to test it on, as apperently it rewrites the bootloader....

H_TeXMeX_H:
Even if you're running minimum specs it's still gonna be slow as shit.

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