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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Oct 2006 20:58 UTC, submitted by BluenoseJake

One of the most innovative features coming in Windows Longhorn Server isn't really a feature as much as a whole new version of Windows. It's called Server Core, and it will only take one-sixth of the disk space of a normal Longhorn installation. It's not expected to need anywhere near as many patches and hotfixes as Windows 2000. It's a version of Windows that does not, in fact, use windows. It's breaking Microsoft's long-standing reliance on graphical interfaces and shaking things up in several of Microsoft's product groups.

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RE[2]: Long whosis?

by Sphinx on Fri 6th Oct 2006 23:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Long whosis?"

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2005-07-09

And how many kernels are there? I see, one.

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RE[3]: Long whosis?

by Adam S on Sat 7th Oct 2006 00:35 in reply to "RE[2]: Long whosis?"

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2005-04-01

Ha! Every distro tweaks their kernel, but all Windows variants (of the same version) share the same kernel.

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RE[4]: Long whosis?

by Anonymo on Sat 7th Oct 2006 00:57 in reply to "RE[3]: Long whosis?"

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2005-07-06

actually all distros have the same kernel. Windows Kernels are different

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RE[4]: Long whosis?

by bytecoder on Sat 7th Oct 2006 01:01 in reply to "RE[3]: Long whosis?"

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2005-11-27

When did linux become a company trying to sell their product? This whole comparison seems fairly stupid...

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RE[4]: Long whosis?

by Sphinx on Sat 7th Oct 2006 15:06 in reply to "RE[3]: Long whosis?"

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Of course you discovered this by looking at the source?

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RE[5]: Long whosis?

by Clinton on Sun 8th Oct 2006 21:49 in reply to "RE[3]: Long whosis?"

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2005-07-05

And yet in spite of it all, Linux is still the better OS and Linux vendors are able to release their offerings far more often that Microsoft.

They must be doing something right.

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RE[3]: Long whosis?

by CPUGuy on Sat 7th Oct 2006 04:00 in reply to "RE[2]: Long whosis?"

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There is one Windows kernel.

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RE[4]: Long whosis?

by BluenoseJake on Sat 7th Oct 2006 14:42 in reply to "RE[3]: Long whosis?"

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2005-08-11

No, there is the Windows NT kernel, the Windows 2000 Kernel, the XP Kernel and so on, each updated. They are all based on the NT kernel, but that is like saying that the 2.4 and 2.6 Linux Kernels are exactly the same, or that Debian's and Redhat's are the same

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