[KLUG Members] GEEK JEOPARDY: 15 DAYS!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > But they'll have allot of functionality in Indigo, Avalon, WinFS, & XAML
> > that the Mac doesn't have any equivalent to.  Unless of course the Mac
> > starts to appropriate a bunch more Open Source components (which they
> > are free to do).  Again, nothing wrong with 'stealing'.
> I like the bit that says, "Longhorn will require 3D video hardware..."

Yea, that one has raised a few hackles.  Especially given that video
hardware in servers is usually pretty minimal;  personally I doubt it
will actually happen that way - but GREAT if it does.

Don't look at me to defend the implementation, this is M$ after all, and
they've proved they can make anything suck.  Just saying they have some
very interesting ideas.  I've no doubt Keith Packard (Xouvert), Novell,
and the GNOME team will take them all and do-it-right.

> This is an IMPROVEMENT? Bad enough Red Hat's configuration tools demand
> both a running X Server and Gnome. SuSE does it right by automatically
> dropping back to ncurses for text-only terminals (okay, maybe it doesn't
> work well on print-only consoles). 

Wow!  You've still got one of those?  And I thought I was legacy with a
3270 terminal.

> An 'improvement' that demands the
> latest, greatest, and most superfluous hardware ain't THAT much of an
> improvement, I say.

Me neither.  BUT think.  Every M$ shop has to replace ALL of its xSeries
& eSeries boxes due to some stupid requirement about video or what not
(and M$ shops will obey, I've seen them).  ALL those sweet boxes get
dumped onto E-Bay!  Yessssssssssss!!!!