Donn Miller wrote:
> Peter Hayes wrote:
>
> > Gamers will eventually have to move to Vista because of the DirectX 10
> > lock in.
The upcoming Halo sequal will require Windows Vista (at the least).
> Also, they'd have to move because of the 64 bits. I've heard the
> present 64-bit version of XP pro isn't very good. HP decided to bundle
> the 32-bit version of XP with my Turion laptop (dv8000). At first I
> questioned it, but then in light of what I've read about the 64-bit
> version, it looks like a good move by HP. I guess I'll try Vista RC on
> this thing eventually. It's got 2 80GB hard drives. Of course, having
> 2 HD's on a laptop is very sweet! I've got Windows on the first, Linux
> and FreeBSD on the second. I didn't want to allocate that much space to
> Windows, but Vista probably would be a major disk hog for sure. I
> compiled BSD partition tables into my Linux kernel, and then used mkswap
> on the FreeBSD swap partition (which resides on the BSD "slice"), and I
> just use the FreeBSD swap partition from within Linux.
Note to self: Donn=BSD. *smirk*
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