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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Does anyone know if and when there is a new windows o.s being released? I have heard that it's called longhorn or something like that but no release date? Any body know?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Windows
    Originally posted by Ramius
    Does anyone know if and when there is a new windows o.s being released? I have heard that it's called longhorn or something like that but no release date? Any body know?
    type longhorn into a SE and you can download it ...in fact go to the MS site ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yes its called longhorn.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/Support/lhdevfaq/default.aspx#WinFXDownLevel

    the above web page will have all the information you need
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    it wont be released for a while yet. The next one (that's not really new) will be windows xp 64 bit edition for the other processors. Longhorn is scheduled 2008 or something. You can / could download bits now but it's very early dev stuff and may not be anything like the real thing.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    2006
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There's one called Redhat under Microsofts orginal name Linux.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Felix Da Housecat
    There's one called Redhat under Microsofts orginal name Linux.

    who uses red hat omg ;<

    real pros use debian :cool:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by jake0
    who uses red hat omg ;<

    real pros use debian :cool:

    Debian is alright, but not as good as Darwin (and OS X)... as a general Linux I would go for SuSE.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The only thing i like about apple computers is the fact that they are excellent for music recording and production.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Extremely good for programming now as well, the unix base is really adaptable... and people dont realise.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by ultimatewisdom
    Debian is alright, but not as good as Darwin (and OS X)... as a general Linux I would go for SuSE.

    just a question thought why suse? im not saying its crap or anything, im just wondering what reasons people use when choosing a distro.

    for me its mainly because of debians apt-get. I love it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    SuSE has some very good in built applications, their customer service is probably the best of all the distros.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by ultimatewisdom
    SuSE has some very good in built applications, their customer service is probably the best of all the distros.

    Ahh fair enough, ive never actually branched into suse. I might try it out.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    @ jake0
    Real pros use Gentoo :D and apt-get is available for Red Hat and Fedora from http://www.fedora.us/ :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ehh I don't think so. Real pro's use Unix.

    Linux users are CHEATERS.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kiezo
    Ehh I don't think so. Real pro's use Unix.

    Solaris?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kiezo
    Linux users are CHEATERS.

    Why because we don't want to pay and get caught up in licenscing *cough* SCO *cough* :D

    [Edit]
    And REAL pros use whatever best suits their needs. Even if it's Windows :crazyeyes :eek2: :nervous:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kiezo
    Ehh I don't think so. Real pro's use Unix.

    Linux users are CHEATERS.


    Well you are "kind" of right, unix is more suited as server applications, like i do believe apache was optimised to work best on bsd.

    and i know quakenets ircd can hold up to 4 times as many clients on freebsd than it can on any linux distrobution.

    I'm not saying anythings wrong with linux, its just that if you are dead serious about something and want a stable platform to run something on then most people choose some kind of bsd.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by NaCN
    Solaris?

    ...What about it?
    Originally posted by ben.s

    And REAL pros use whatever best suits their needs. Even if it's Windows :crazyeyes :eek2: :nervous:

    Lie. No pros use Windows. Or Linux. They all use Unix with cool start-up splashes like in the movie 'Hackers'.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kiezo
    ...What about it?

    It's got a cool symbol of a sun. With pointy bits.

    Pros probably use it, unless they're as cool as the people in "Hackers".
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