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JonCo54 -> Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (6/25/2008 5:04:14 PM)

Confused? Here's the bottom line: Online retailers like Newegg.com, which made headlines discounting OEM copies of Windows Vista by as much as 50 percent as authorized distributors, say they can exercise the same loophole and continue selling Windows XP as standalone, OEM software after June 30. A Microsoft spokesman also confirmed that was true. Rest of info here. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2321572,00.asp



imagineopeneyes -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/3/2008 8:26:58 AM)

Its hard to believe Windows 7 will be out in a little over a year...



JonCo54 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/3/2008 10:24:06 PM)

IMO M$ should take as long as they need. Rushed out the door products are never good . Even Intel has chosen XP over Visduh. When M$ has to resort to FUD to try to keep its mainstream customers, something has gone wrong with M$, terribly wrong.



Cc20 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/5/2008 1:03:18 AM)

we just bought a computer installed with XP, it's a Dell inspiron, and it was so cheap simply because it has XP instead of Vista!!! that proves how much they wanna get rid of all Xp comps![8|]



fluffmonkey -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/10/2008 11:31:38 AM)

No one wants Vista.... (no wonder they are rushing 7)



JonCo54 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/10/2008 12:03:44 PM)

$$$$$$$$$ that's why.



figmentPez -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/10/2008 2:58:54 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: fluffmonkey

No one wants Vista.... (no wonder they are rushing 7)


I'm running Vista, and I like it.



JonCo54 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/10/2008 6:28:43 PM)

If you really want to see the WOW (3D Effects) then have a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0a2KFtApdM&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wPr1yYGeA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9BD6C6s23Y&feature=related

Enjoy



rlj -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/13/2008 1:42:38 PM)

quote:

I'm running Vista, and I like it.


I like it also. I think the two most important things for it are 1)2 gigs of Ram and 2)A physical video card of some decency.

quote:

IMO M$ should take as long as they need. Rushed out the door products are never good .


Vista is actually pretty stripped down from its original vision. I didn't follow it closely but it seemed about once a month or so in the last 18 months before launch they were stripping some feature instead of releasing it buggy or putting off the release date. I would think that all Windows 7 would be is something more like what Vista should have been with some changes based on feedback.

The Linux desktop has come a long way. I'm going to have to play with a version of it soon since I found an old 40gig HD that I thought was forever lost.

How dependable is NTFS now with some of the distros?



JonCo54 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/13/2008 1:54:40 PM)

NTFS is supported in Linux with this driver. I don't know how stable it is in some distro's but it is in PCLinuxOS. Here is an overview from the PCLinuxOSrepository.
Read-write NTFS driver for Linux
The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS
driver, which provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows
Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista filesystems. Almost the full
POSIX filesystem functionality is supported, the major exceptions are
changing the file ownerships and the access rights.

The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and
support a trustable, featureful and high performance solution for hardware
platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate
with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore
the limits of the hybrid, kernel/user space filesystem driver approach,
performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort wise.

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html

and the PCLinuxOS link
http://www.pclinuxos.com/



rlj -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/13/2008 6:40:07 PM)

Thanks for the report. I remember years ago I ended mounting some of it on my windows 98 fat 32 partition and it was pretty easy. If I get the urge to mess with it again since I have a router and don't act as an ICS server I can probably even dig out an old 8 gig and just mount another folder on the NTFS IF it's that dependable now.



JonCo54 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/13/2008 7:30:30 PM)

I have it installed on my PCLinuxOS as of about 15 minutes ago. Will check it out. For storage I have an 2nd 80 gig hard drive to compliment the 250 gig HD. It is formatted to Fat32 as both windows and linux can RW from that file system effortlessly. The 250 gig supports three OS's. XP pro on 100 gig NTFS, PCLinuxOS 100 gig Ext3, and Klikit Linux on 50 gig Ext3. All downloading is done in Linux. To use them in windows I just move or copy them to a folder on the fat32 HD. To use windows files in Linux I do the same that way I never had to use the NTFS3g driver.



JonCo54 -> RE: Don't Panic: You Can Still Buy XP After June 30 (7/13/2008 7:37:49 PM)

If your looking for a small business server solution ckeck this out.
http://www.pclosbe.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page



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