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openSUSE: Nothing Else Works on My Computer
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| I gave Windows Vista, which came with my
| hardware (Inspiron 545 MT), and the free
| Windows 7 upgrade, a fair and honest try.
| For two weeks I ran Win7. It was certainly
| better than Vista, but there were things
| which just did not work for me. You would
| hardly be surprised it centered mostly on my
| addiction to certain Open Source tools which
| are not available, or donât work properly,
| on Win7. Bear in mind, the free version I
| got was 64-bit Home Premium, but the main
| problem was GNU4Win tools didnât work at all
| on the commandline. They arenât compatible.
|
| There were other issues, mostly reflecting
| the commercial controls to which Windows
| users are restricted, limitations which have
| nothing to do with law or copyright, but
| inside deals.
|
| Weâve already tested Ubuntu and related
| distros on this machine, and they are all
| broken on two main issues: Optical media and
| X.org. The former didnât work at all, and
| the latter crashed and logged me out at the
| oddest times. Nobody seemed to have a clue,
| as I searched extensively. Nothing in the
| logs answered any questions I knew how to
| ask. But openSUSE 11.2 runs without those
| glitches. By no means can we call it
| perfect, but it sucks less, as one Open
| Source project used to claim for itself.
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http://jehurst.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/opensuse-nothing-else-works-on-my-computer/
Recent:
Windows 7 â Itâs Vista All Over Again
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| âThere you go againâ. The Gipper said it in
| 1982, and Iâm saying it today â but about
| Windows 7, not Jimmy Carter.
|
| Because the more I play with Windows 7, the
| more I see the Vista debacle unfolding all
| over again. The commonly accepted wisdom is
| that Windows 7 is oh-so-much-better than
| Vista. Well, based on my own extensive
| testing, itâs not. Not at all.
|
| First a bit of history. Back in 2006 I was
| editor-in-chief of PC Magazine. Vista was
| coming out and we were pretty darn
| laudatory. Microsoft provided us with new
| hardware, we tested beta versions of Vista,
| and we loved it. Shortly after it shipped,
| alas, the Wow was less Now than Ow. Vista
| sucked upon release to the world for a wide
| range of reasons â not least because the
| networking and audio driver models were
| completely rebuilt in the six months prior
| to release. That led to driver problems,
| along with general instability. When I left
| PC Magazine in 2007, my parting column was
| a bit of an apology â weâd been too easy on
| what turned out to be one of Microsoftâs
| more uneven efforts.
|
| Itâs easy to get snowed. Microsoft provides
| its favored reviewers a steady stream of
| highlights, new versions, and new features
| â along with brand new hardware to run the
| new builds upon. A team of technical
| marketers inside the borg stand at the
| ready â helping the anointed work through,
| and around, any problems that develop
| during testing.
|
| [...]
|
| Weâve seen this story before. Vista was
| overhyped when it came out by everyone from
| PC Magazine to the Wall Street Journal. And
| now Windows 7 is getting the same treatment.
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http://louderback.com/2009/windows-7-its-vista-all-over-again/
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