Vista/Longhorn [was Re: What is the different between ...]

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote:
> --- Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote:
> > > --- Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd,
> > > > and even windows (gah!).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > So there is truth in the rumours that Windows Vista is going to be
> > > Linux based?  But I suppose Debian with a Windows kernel wouldn't
> > > strictly be Linux based.  I dread to think what it would be, though
> > -
> > > <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049366/>
> > 
> > Never heard of Windows Vista.  What is it?
> > 
> 
> Official name of the next version of Windows, previously called
> Longhorn.  It is due to be released in summer 2004 - wait, I think the
> deadline may have slipped a bit.

And watch the sh_t hit the fan. I'm predicting major headaches, like
"Why can't I read my document in xxx app" etc


See the links below for the gory details.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

-- 
Chris.
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