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Longhorn Linux? Really?

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worker201:
The Longhorn project team originally wanted to produce a big flashy OS (see the YouTube videos on the previous page) with lots of innovative (by Microsoft standards) features and stable technology under the hood.  But, like all project developers, their eyes were bigger than their stomachs.  As is usual with IT projects, featuritis, focus creep, and deadline issue caused the original vision to be drastically scaled down.  Longhorn (as defined by this project) was the concept, Vista was the actual product.

So, it depends on whether you think of Longhorn the initial concept, or Longhorn the name of Vista beta releases.  I guess after watching those videos, it became clear to me that this project was more interested in the former.

Aloone_Jonez:
Watching the videos didn't mean much until I saw some Vista videos.

I suppose Longhorn was too full of eye candy for a typical 2003 PC which would typically have 256MB ram or so and a 1.8GHz single core processor and PC3200 board.

worker201:
When I was in geospatial analysis school, we did projects, and we presented the status of our project every 3 weeks or so.  One of the groups started out like "We're going to have our own domain with a bicycling database and custom-served maps and Flex interfaces etc."  And then six weeks later, "We're going to have a Google maps plugin in a blog post."  It's easy to get excited in the beginning, but then it begins to sink in that you'll never be able to do all that in the time you have available while staying under budget.  Early stage featuritis and over-hyped design specifications are to be expected from student amateurs, but you'd think that the programmers at Microsoft would be a little bit more fucking professional.  Save the hype for the marketing department.

Lead Head:
Well if your marketing department is driving the programmers....

But yes, the big issue with Longhorn is that it was based mainly on the XP code base. It was supposed to be a small update to XP, ex adding more functionality, new themes, etc..but as development went on they started adding more and more stuff. It just really couldn't support all that added eye candy and features they were adding onto it. The last few builds of Longhorn were actually regressing in terms of stability. From what I gathered from the Wikipedia article the last build or two before they scrapped it and started over were actually unusable, sometimes even failing to boot.

Kintaro:

--- Quote from: reactosguy on 15 March 2010, 06:27 ---Plus, it's Linux. You can't run Windows apps unless you have WINE (which does poorly anyway).

Look at the system requirements. 3GB Hard drive space filled up, sounds good? Ah, but it uses 512MB of RAM. Enough to clog your PC?

Conclusion: If there's an operating system to mimic Windows' basic functionality, it's ReactOS (because they are working to make their OS neat and run many of the Windows apps).

--- End quote ---

Fuck ReactOS, I can run Windows inside VMware Unity and have its apps and even 3D games right on my Linux desktop, running on Xorg.

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