Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Apr 2006 14:20 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista will run on just about any PC available today, but it will only show its true colors on about half of them, according to a new report from Gartner. While Microsoft is currently suggesting a minimum of 512MB, the new OS will require at least 1GB of dual-channel memory to provide its full capabilities, Gartner said in the report. However, all recent discrete solutions from major graphics makers such as ATI and Nvidia, for both desktops and notebooks, are expected to be able to support Aero, Gartner said in the report. My take: After toying with Vista myself, it becomes quite clear what you need to run Aero glass: 512 MB of fast RAM, and a DirectX9 compatible videocard with 128MB RAM. I also found that even non-DirectX9 videocards can run Aero Glass comfortably.
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2006-01-06
What post stated above.
Show me a distro that has Xgl turned on by default -- and which works with more than one or two cards.
I invite you to my house to see then.
Cool! You have pixel shaders running on Xgl?! No way! Not even the Xgl devs have that running! Way to go!
$apt-get install gdesklets
And you wonder why the Year of the Linux Desktop hasn't arrived..? Why should anyone install a desktop OS that's so poorly integrated? For a server? Fine. For a desktop? Try again.
I guess I'll be shown wrong though, when Vista is released......maybe January next year? We'll see how much further along all of these *nix based technologies come along by then.
Right. You can just ask people to waste their time downloading them, huh? LMFAO!
Don't talk about lack of driver support - when Vista isn't released yet.
You might not want to talk about it (I don't blame you, given your pathetic compatibility matrix) but MS is. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/ent... for a list of compatible Aero cards.
We'll see what my Direct X 9 capable card can do in *nix with Xgl versus Windows then.
Try pixel shaders, for one. Ooops! Forgot that one, huh? It's in Aero, though.