[Luna] Vista requirements

[Andrew Roazen]

luna-request at lists.flaglug.org wrote:
>
> From:
> "Scott Sawyer" <ssawyer at gmail.com>
>
> If we were to do anything I'd think that we would want to get ahead of 
> the curve and then have events or messages going out periodically as 
> follow on's.  If the message is something along the lines of, you 
> don't need to buy new hardware if you look at Linux and open office in 
> order to do work.  I haven't looked at the memory requirements of 
> Vista but I recall you need at least 1 GB of RAM to make it work.  
> Linux can be pretty dang good in much less. 
There's been a lot of FUD about Vista's requirements. AFAIK it will run 
in 512Mb RAM, albeit not optimally. As a guy with a 256Mb laptop running 
Ubuntu/XP, 1Gb ought to be a base requirement for most new computers 
until such time as code optimization actually matters to runtime 
developers. Memory is cheap.

More importantly, 1Gb is mandatory for frameworks like Xen, and if the 
hype's to be believed, Xen is going to be a pretty big deal in both the 
MS/GNU worlds over the next few years.

By all accounts, Vista is a transitional OS like MacOS 9 was: a chance 
to introduce programmers to new APIs before they release a less diluted 
version of what they originally planned for Vista. The major issue down 
the road is how successfully MS will be able to get people to abandon 
Vista once its replacement is ready: their track record on this is 
pretty awful compared to personal/business *nix users (OS X included). 
In the case of Apple, this is helped strongly by the amount of software 
(commercial and FOSS) which doesn't support OSes more than one release 
behind current if even that.

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