Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 11:38 UTC
X11, Window Managers 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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RE[5]: Works fine
by BluenoseJake on Thu 21st Dec 2006 19:14 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Works fine"
BluenoseJake
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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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RE[6]: Works fine
by Feanor on Thu 21st Dec 2006 20:55 in reply to "RE[5]: Works fine"
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2006-12-21

The TCP/IP stack rewrite alone is enough to upgrade. Remember those file transfers and downloads on XP? Vista does a MUCH better job.

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