[plug] Fedora 7 vs Windows Longhorn Server 2008 Beta 3

[Arie Hol]

On 22 Sep 2007 at 18:41, Chris Caston wrote:

> Don't draw that conclusion until you try the final product. Remember you 
are
> stil working with a beta.
> 

Chris, that may be a fair comment, but I am talking about basic hardware 
compatibility - which is nothing new or exciting - and yet Windows Server 
2008 doesn't have it - regardless of whether it is beta or not.

There are still many hardware incompatibilities with Vista and these are 
not being addressed by Microsoft as well as many hardware vendors - 
consequently they expect everybody  to just go out and buy new hardware to 
suit a new OS. 

Yet there are many new hardware options that do not have adequate support.

Besides the outrageous cost of changing to a new version of an OS that is 
little more than a service pack upgrade with a few GUI enhancements (if I 
can call it that).

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 could well be the best things that 
ever happened to Linux in the last twelve months.

Admittedly my comparison was somewhat simplistic, but in reality I ended up 
with a dual boot system where everything in Fedora 7 was detected and 
configured and/ or installed and updated without error or incident as 
compared to Windows Server 2008 - where basic hardware was not detected 
and/or  configured in any usable way.

As well, there is a considerable bonus, my bank account is not missing 
several hundreds of valuable dollars, which can be invested in other areas 
of my life.

The results speak for themselves, regardless on my opinions.

Regards Arie
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