[ILUG] Longhorn

[James McCarthy]

wasnt WinFS dropped from LH due to MS having to actually ship
something this side of the decade?
If I remember correctly(I cant remember where from, probably
slashdot), MS might release it as a service pack 1-2 years after LH
has been relerased.

I might be mistaken, i didnt really pay much heed when i read it
except for a very smug feeling.

On 01/06/05, nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie <nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie> wrote:
> Quoting Bryan O'Donoghue <typedef at eircom.net>:
> 
> > nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie wrote:
> >
> > > is it not a case that microsoft are playing the catch up game, posts here
> > seem
> > > to be saying MS are running miles ahead of linux,
> > > but we already have xfs and reiser is also being developed.
> > > all these linux technologies are extremely scalable, something I suspect
> > > longhorn will fail at, it will more than likely run slower and require
> > more
> > > hardware. This has been the case with every windows release to date.
> > > where as I can run xfs quite hapily on my P3 at home.
> >
> > Oh please...
> >
> > I read some ludicrous hardware spec for Longhorn requirements, that I
> > thought was a parody of incremental Windows resource bloat... until I
> > realised the source for the hardware spec... was the beast itself.
> >
> > /searches {ponderously, sans WinFS}
> >
> > http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1581842,00.asp
> >
> > [quote]
> > Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC
> > feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of
> > RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired
> > port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs
> > three times faster than those on the market today.
> > [/quote]
> >
> > Dual core 6ghz, 2 gb RAM, 1TB Hdd ?
> >
> > Somehow, if I were buying a pretty meaty DB/Web Server as a Pizza box,
> > tomorrow, I'd be grateful, of such a spec.
> >
> > Does granny Gates, really need all this to run LookOut and become a spam
> > host circa Longhorn release in 2006 ?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Bryan
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> >
> 
> lmao, yeah well there you go. Given the amount hard drives will have advanced at
> this stage also, dir /s filename.ext on DOS 5.0 will probably execute faster
> longhorns journalised metadata FS. :p
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