Re: Socket AM2 motherboards -- best chipset for Linux, BSD?

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:55:30 -0700, hardtechnofreak@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

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ps: *** win2000 on dualboot just virtiualize it (6)

If there's a technical advantage to doing that, then I might, but if
it's purely out of resentment towards Microsoft, I'll stick to
dualbooting.

I have some issues with Windows, which is why I've decided to
gradually migrate to another OS, but I'm not driven by the intense
hatred of MS that some seem to have. I'd probably be sticking with
Windows if it weren't for a couple of decisions MS made in their last
two releases.

The reason I never upgraded to XP (even though I could have without
paying a dime when I bought my last PC) was that I was bothered by the
product activation scheme. In practical terms, I hear it's not that
big a deal, but it was the principle of the thing. I refuse to put any
software on my machine for which I have to get a new activation code
when I want to reinstall it.

I was also put off by XP's GUI, which was more of the same crap I had
disliked in Windows 98. I've heard XP's GUI described as the "Fisher
Price" GUI, which isn't just funny but apt. (To be fair, though, I've
heard that you can revert the GUI to a "Windows Classic" mode.)

When I started thinking about building a PC, I was considering Vista
(which unlike XP, has a very nice GUI), but not only does Vista have
the same activation scheme as XP, it also has the DRM stuff which is a
hundred times more controlling and intrusive. Again, I don't think the
DRM stuff is any big deal in practice, but it bothers me that it's
there in principle.

A few weeks ago I was playing with the PC's on display at one of the
big box stores, and I couldn't believe how sluggish Vista was on even
the most recent hardware. On an older Pentium with 128 megs of RAM,
running Windows 98 and using a program like ACDSee, I can navigate
through a large folder of 500+ Kb .jpeg's as quickly as I can push the
arrow buttons on my keyboard. By comparison, the slideshow/image
viewer that comes with Vista takes forever to load, and it couldn't
even navigate the dozen or so sub-500 Kb sample .jpeg's that come with
Vista without occasionally pausing to catch its breath. This doesn't
seem like progress to me.
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"Those of us whose brains did not die in college are
actually stunned by just how stupid academic ideas
are." -- Robert W. Whitaker, http://readbob.com/
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