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why wouldn't it?

why wouldn't it?


How about BSD?

why wouldn't it?


How about BSD?
=o povided its x86 compatible, yes..

why wouldn't it?


How about BSD?
=o povided its x86 compatible, yes..


Everyone is going Ga Ga over Conroe months before it's released and I have yet to see a single quality Linux or BSD benchmark.

What the problem is??????? ( to quote a famous person ).

I have yet to see a quality fully independent 3rd party benchmark as well.

Again, what the problem is??????? ( to quote a famous person ).

What's the dealio yo?

why wouldn't it?


How about BSD?
=o povided its x86 compatible, yes..


Of course it is, x86 Macs run BSD ( Mac OS X = BSD++ ).

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alpha Digital Alpha-based systems
amd64 AMD64-based systems
cats StrongARM 110 Evaluation Board
hp300 Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 series 300 and 400 workstations
hppa Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) systems
i386 Standard PC and clones based on the Intel i386 architecture and compatible processors
luna88k Omron LUNA-88K and LUNA-88K2 workstations
mac68k Motorola 680x0-based Apple Macintosh with MMU
macppc Apple New World PowerPC-based machines, from the iMac onwards
mvme68k Motorola 680x0-based VME systems
mvme88k Motorola 881x0-based VME systems
sgi SGI MIPS-based workstations
sparc Sun sun4, sun4c and sun4m class SPARC systems
sparc64 Sun UltraSPARC systems
vax Digital VAX-based systems
zaurus Sharp Zaurus C3x00 PDAs
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while that's true, all the limelight follows current XP and Vista apps. It will work, that's almost certain.

What is disturbing is the lack of good solid fully independent 3rd party benchmarks for any OS on production / commodity hardware.

How long before this beast is supposedly released?


PS VISTA got delayed again.

What an odd thing to say.

With anandtech we got yonah reviews in decemeber and it came out in january, we got AM2 reviews this month and it comes out next month.

June.

What is disturbing is the lack of good solid fully independent 3rd party benchmarks for any OS on production / commodity hardware.

How long before this beast is supposedly released?


PS VISTA got delayed again.
haha, f*ck vista im not going to buy it anyway. regardless, conroe releases in july (hopefully)

You know, if Linux had the compatability of XP/Vista, I would only use linux, the damn thing is just too rock solid. I have to admit though, XP ain't bad for stability. Definitely an improvement over 95/98/2000/ME. The only reason I use XP vs. Linux is because you can't do anything on Linux, Microsoft has all the developers wrapped around their finger .

You know, if Linux had the compatability of XP/Vista, I would only use linux, the damn thing is just too rock solid. I have to admit though, XP ain't bad for stability. Definitely an improvement over 95/98/2000/ME. The only reason I use XP vs. Linux is because you can't do anything on Linux, Microsoft has all the developers wrapped around their finger .


Linux and BSD can do virtually everything windows can do except play certain windoze only games.

Many games and apps will run under WINE, Cedega, VMWare, QEMU, DOSBox, and others. VMWare and QEMU will run everything windows can run natively except they are not ideal for games.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

Mileage does vary but certain games and apps run, some run quite well.

Many apps that do not run, do not need to run because they have excellent open source equivalents.

You know, if Linux had the compatability of XP/Vista, I would only use linux, the damn thing is just too rock solid. I have to admit though, XP ain't bad for stability. Definitely an improvement over 95/98/2000/ME. The only reason I use XP vs. Linux is because you can't do anything on Linux, Microsoft has all the developers wrapped around their finger .


Linux and BSD can do virtually everything windows can do except play certain windoze only games.

Many games and apps will run under WINE, Cedega, VMWare, QEMU, DOSBox, and others. VMWare and QEMU will run everything windows can run natively except they are not ideal for games.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

Mileage does vary but certain games and apps run, some run quite well.

Many apps that do not run, do not need to run because they have excellent open source equivalents. Sure, experienced users like you and I prefer Linux, but how many people are experienced? Microsoft needs to put some overly-extensive effort into their OS'. They are the perfect example of a monopoly, they have no competition so they don't have to put out a better-than-mediocre product.

You know, if Linux had the compatability of XP/Vista, I would only use linux, the damn thing is just too rock solid. I have to admit though, XP ain't bad for stability. Definitely an improvement over 95/98/2000/ME. The only reason I use XP vs. Linux is because you can't do anything on Linux, Microsoft has all the developers wrapped around their finger .


Linux and BSD can do virtually everything windows can do except play certain windoze only games.

Many games and apps will run under WINE, Cedega, VMWare, QEMU, DOSBox, and others. VMWare and QEMU will run everything windows can run natively except they are not ideal for games.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php

http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/

Mileage does vary but certain games and apps run, some run quite well.

Many apps that do not run, do not need to run because they have excellent open source equivalents. Sure, experienced users like you and I prefer Linux, but how many people are experienced? Microsoft needs to put some overly-extensive effort into their OS'. They are the perfect example of a monopoly, they have no competition so they don't have to put out a better-than-mediocre product.


Linux and BSD are not just for experienced users any more.

People or all ages and skill levels are capable of using Linux.

Kids can use it, adults can use it and seniors can use it, I've supported several people that run it. They just need to be shown what to click on that's all.

:-D

How bad is the emulation performance hit?

It varies, you usually get 70 - 95% of full hardware performance.

Sometimes you gain that back by using x86_64 and AMD64 CPUs which are 25-75% faster in 64bit more.