In 2002, both KDE and GNOME released their last major revisions; KDE released KDE 3.0 on 3rd April, while GNOME followed shortly after with GNOME 2.0 on 27th June. For the Linux desktop, therefore, 2002 was an important year. Since then, we have continiously been fed point releases which added bits of functionaility and speed improvements, but no major revision has yet seen the light of day. What's going on?
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Member since:2005-11-09
I have used nothing but Linux and OS X for the last 5 years and I must say you have no idea what you are talking about. Vista is probably the first version of windows that one can consider to be usable. I plan to use the 64 bit version simply because MS has made all nice security bells and whistles available to it due to the cutting off legacy support.
It is making use of intel's hardware buffer overflow protection, It will not allow unsigned drivers to load into the system (XP allowed user override), and best of all... the system files will load at random offsets at each boot which will make remote attacks nearly impossible.
Member since:2005-08-11
Actually, I use FreeBSD and XP at home. They rewrote the TCPIP stack, updated all the bundled apps, rewrote the security subsystem so user accounts are more secure, rewrote IE, created an entirely new graphics subsystem, rewrote the audio stack, you name it, it has been updated/rewrote/fixed.
Obviously you have no idea what Vista is and isn't, so feel free to do some research before you start mouthing off
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2005-08-11
Vista is more than just a DE, it's an entire OS, with change made throughout. if you think it's just a DE, please stop commenting on something you know nothing about