Vista SP1

[Cliphead]

SKA client does work on it thanks to Mono, but I would not run production .NET server on it - memory management in .NET is much better than in Mono right now, this was worked around in the client, but hard to deal with in server, so it's cheaper to run on "desktop" Windows version: Action Pack allows up to 10 of those, so that's maybe £20 per year, that's not a lot and I don't have to deal with the weirdness of Linux.

I had Linux router on a PC, but after one powercut it won't boot - just says Kernel Panic and that's it - very helpful, NOT!

Kernel panic's are rare, a power cut on any running OS is asking for trouble. A re-install would likely do the job but a UPS is a much better solution.

[AtW]

Kernel panic's are rare, a power cut on any running OS is asking for trouble. A re-install would likely do the job but a UPS is a much better solution.

Well, unless an HDD is damaged by powercut I expect OS to boot at least in safe mode - a sudden loss of power should only affect cached in memory data that was not written to disk, and OS boot structured should never be affected.

I had lots of time Windows XP box had power shutdown - it can boot up back just fine, so I am afraid I am not impressed with Linux.

The other issue is that it was not me who installed it, and all related to Linux apart from simple command lines is just way too painful to me - it is alien thing and I don't want to spend time trying to learn obvious thing that are just way too fking hard there. So, no, for me cost of Windows is well paid for the easy of use it provides and I can focus on either posting drivel here or doing something useful. Right now I am going to do something useful

[Cliphead]

Well, unless an HDD is damaged by powercut I expect OS to boot at least in safe mode - a sudden loss of power should only affect cached in memory data that was not written to disk, and OS boot structured should never be affected.

I had lots of time Windows XP box had power shutdown - it can boot up back just fine, so I am afraid I am not impressed with Linux.

The other issue is that it was not me who installed it, and all related to Linux apart from simple command lines is just way too painful to me - it is alien thing and I don't want to spend time trying to learn obvious thing that are just way too fking hard there. So, no, for me cost of Windows is well paid for the easy of use it provides and I can focus on either posting drivel here or doing something useful. Right now I am going to do something useful

To be honest with numerous power cuts where I live (and no UPS), I haven't yet had any issues with the Linux boxes running at the time booting back up normally, I guess you just got unlucky.

As for learning Linux, I've been involved almost from the start so know it very well and no other OS comes close in terms of reliability and functionality both server and desktop. I'm not pushing one OS over another, it's all down to what you're comfortable with.

[ace00]

I won't ever move to Vista on a production / development PC. So far Linux is doing about 90% of what I need with the last 10% coming soon. I'll keep an XP PC around for nostalgia but the full move away for MS is almost there.

Tell me about it. I bought a new laptop the other day. Dual core, 633 Mhz bus straight through, 1 Gb Ram, etc. Goodie I thought as I started it up this is going to burn it up. Jeez it's slower than my old XP no-name, made in China CPU laptop I run now. Memory red-lining, CPU loading 50% average, 30Gb of disk space gone. And that's out the box, nothing installed. Except Vista. How do they do that? It's like X-windows circa 1998, except much, much worse.
I'm gonna get one of those little RAM only laptops with Linux.

[AtW]

If you ignore DRM crap, drivers issue (better now than year ago though), and incompatibilities, then the striking thing is why the heck they use so much more RAM? It is just recently when memory prices/OS requirements became good so that I use 2 GB in my box and XP runs very very nicely, and suddenly Vista appears and requires a lot more for no reason - it's not a major change in OS ffs - they could stick their shiny 3D GUI where sun does not shine.