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Re: Hey, isn't this the GA construction plan?
Post by drothgery   » Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:45 am

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Weird Harold wrote:Current Windows versions require multiple CD-ROMs or download from the "Cloud" to install and hundred of Gigabytes of hard disk space to install and run smoothly -- or as smoothly as Windows ever runs.

Windows 7 took fewer system resources and less disk space than Vista (assuming x64 in all cases). 8 took less than 7. 8.1 less than 8. And 10 less than 8.1. All will run fine on nearly ten-year-old hardware at this point.
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Re: Hey, isn't this the GA construction plan?
Post by drothgery   » Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:57 am

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cthia wrote:Incidentally, Unix/Linux, by far the most powerful and secure OS in the world (banks, universities, military) still runs in just 8MB if you'd like - stripped down. A very powerful yet stripped down version that will run circles around windows requires just 64MB.
OSX, which is BSD Unix with a decent GUI and all the apps that a modern desktop user expects and the only true competitor to desktop Windows, is bigger than contemporary Windows, not smaller. Any consumer-oriented Linux distro is similar-sized.
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Re: Hey, isn't this the GA construction plan?
Post by Tenshinai   » Fri Oct 02, 2015 3:24 pm

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drothgery wrote:
Weird Harold wrote:Current Windows versions require multiple CD-ROMs or download from the "Cloud" to install and hundred of Gigabytes of hard disk space to install and run smoothly -- or as smoothly as Windows ever runs.

Windows 7 took fewer system resources and less disk space than Vista (assuming x64 in all cases). 8 took less than 7. 8.1 less than 8. And 10 less than 8.1. All will run fine on nearly ten-year-old hardware at this point.


With equal installations, 7 takes more than Vista, 8 takes less than 7 while 10 uses more than 7.
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Re: Hey, isn't this the GA construction plan?
Post by Vince   » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:15 am

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cthia wrote:There is no way that I will ever believe that Honorverse military computers has anything to do with Winblows. The only current US military computers that run Windows are the ones that are sitting on the desks of secretaries and end users. The real WOPR is most probably running a variant of UNIX - the most powerful and the most secure OS in the world - upon which the internet itself is built.

The US military would never use anything remotely similar to a bloatfed obese beast like Windows - which is so easily susceptible to viruses, bugs, worms, viruses, attacks, viruses and more viruses.

Iran learned how vulnerable Winblows is when the US let the genie out of the bag with the first digital weapon *(STUXNET) engineered just for their little Windows baby.

Incidentally, Unix/Linux, by far the most powerful and secure OS in the world (banks, universities, military) still runs in just 8MB if you'd like - stripped down. A very powerful yet stripped down version that will run circles around windows requires just 64MB.

* http://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown- ... y-stuxnet/

Cthia, you are an optimist and/or have never worked in information technology or US Department of Defense budgeting.

Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water

Windows XP Still Being Used By U.S. Navy, Pays Microsoft $9m A Year For Support
U.S. Navy Pays Microsoft $9 M a Year to Use Windows XP

Navy Accelerates Migration to Windows 7
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History does not repeat itself so much as it echoes.
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Re: Hey, isn't this the GA construction plan?
Post by kzt   » Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:49 am

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And of course security was always a top priority...

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/20 ... em/122402/
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