I haven't used Windows except for rare occasions for years. I use Debian Linux, with Freedos in dosemu for occasionally messing around.
--- On Sun, 4/19/09, Michael Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > From: Michael Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> > Subject: [Freedos-user] Vista thoughts... > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 4:28 PM > I have never used Vista. I > think the minimum hardware requirements are > too high for me. Worse than that, I don't even like > XP because it's > a pain to deal with activation and an even greater pain to > back it up. > I've never figured out how to back up Windows XP. > That said, I don't > use XP very often. It's annoying when programs like > TurboTax don't > work, and it's annoying when sites like nbc.com don't work, > but CentOS > fills my needs for the most part. Freedos opens up > even more software, > but there's the problem that getting a hold of commercial > dos software > legally is difficult where I haven't seen very many OSS > projects for > freedos. > > People are saying I hope Windows 7 will be better. > Have any of these > people ever checked out http://badvista.fsf.org? If > activation isn't > annoying enough, try digital rights management that can be > hacked > so that you can't use your own media that you created > yourself. > I've heard that there are still driver issues in > Vista. The word > on what OEM software has become in Vista land disgusts > me. You should > always be allowed to back up your installation media as > many times as > you want in any operating environment you want to. > Windows Vista > raised the operating requirements for Windows, I suppose > you need > a dual core computer now. Am I the only one who > doesn't think this > is particularly appropriate? Is Windows 7 going to > magically bring > Vista to older computers? I doubt it. I doubt > that Microsoft is > going to give up on making it impossible to back up > installation > media and I doubt that Microsoft will give up on forcing > people > to activate their copy of Windows. Now is the time to > send a message > to Microsoft that the abuse must end and the only way to do > that is > to demand a refund when you get a computer with Windows > Vista or > Windows 7 installed. Microsoft has no business > denying people the > right to back up their installation media, it has no > business forcing > people to activate software that it will later cease to > support, it > has no business playing media cop severely impacting > performance. > > Free operating systems are getting to the point where you > can get > along without the latest version of Windows. Thing > is, people have > to actively abandon Windows, a.k.a. demand a refund, before > Microsoft > will get the message that it's business practices are > unethical and > unacceptable. It is also necessary to boycott > software that requires > Windows because it is not written to be portable to other > OS's. > Microsoft Windows is a monopoly OS because people allow it > to be. > If the public in general would stop accepting programs that > need > Microsoft Windows, Microsoft could not maintain it's > monopoly. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside > and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and > save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San > Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
