[ILUG] Longhorn

[nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie]

Quoting Bryan O'Donoghue <typedef at eircom.net>:

> nadir at compsoc.nuigalway.ie wrote:
>
> > is it not a case that microsoft are playing the catch up game, posts here
> seem
> > to be saying MS are running miles ahead of linux,
> > but we already have xfs and reiser is also being developed.
> > all these linux technologies are extremely scalable, something I suspect
> > longhorn will fail at, it will more than likely run slower and require
> more
> > hardware. This has been the case with every windows release to date.
> > where as I can run xfs quite hapily on my P3 at home.
>
> Oh please...
>
> I read some ludicrous hardware spec for Longhorn requirements, that I
> thought was a parody of incremental Windows resource bloat... until I
> realised the source for the hardware spec... was the beast itself.
>
> /searches {ponderously, sans WinFS}
>
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1581842,00.asp
>
> [quote]
> Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC
> feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of
> RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired
> port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs
> three times faster than those on the market today.
> [/quote]
>
> Dual core 6ghz, 2 gb RAM, 1TB Hdd ?
>
> Somehow, if I were buying a pretty meaty DB/Web Server as a Pizza box,
> tomorrow, I'd be grateful, of such a spec.
>
> Does granny Gates, really need all this to run LookOut and become a spam
> host circa Longhorn release in 2006 ?
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> Bryan
> --
> Irish Linux Users' Group
> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/
>
>


lmao, yeah well there you go. Given the amount hard drives will have advanced at
this stage also, dir /s filename.ext on DOS 5.0 will probably execute faster
longhorns journalised metadata FS. :p