On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:40:39 -0800, Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 10:38 PM, Craig Bradney wrote: >> >> Really, I think we should only support Windows 7. XP is old, ugly, has a >> million bugs and plenty of security issues. Vista was just a big old >> mistake in its earliest versions. In its latest versions, it is actually >> quite ok on the right hardware. Windows 7 will easily beat XP and Vista >> in my experience in performance (even on 3-4 year old hardware with >> reasonable spec) and usability, as well as security. > > Where I work, for reasons which remain obscure but probably give > evidence for the presence of Neanderthal genes in the population, XP is > still the OS of our hospital's system, and not only that, but you must > use IE6 and a severely outdated Java to fully access information that I > need. Thus my setting up of an XP VM on my computers, and by the time I > did this, I could only manage to find an x86_64 version of XP, something > of an orphan's orphan, since no one, even Microsoft, has a complete set > of drivers for various peripherals, and various work-arounds don't > manage to work around the problems. > > This isn't to say that there isn't some ulginess with Win7. I bought a > Dell with Win7 installed, with backup DVD, and one of my first > operations was to wipe Win7 from it and install Fedora. I really wasn't > interested in Win7 except as a means to be able to test Scribus on it, > so after checking the EULA on the DVD, which gives me the right to > install it as a VM, I installed it on this same computer. It more or > less seems to work Ok, but now every time I start it up, it tells me > that this is not a genuine version of 7, and that I need to correct this > problem to be a good citizen. I tried to fix this via their online > suggestion, but this failed, with the further suggestion that I need to > call to straighten out this matter. Since it's still working, I don't > bother. > > So in the process of making 7 seem like it's a good result following the > release of Vista, they have embedded various tests to run every time you > start up Win7, i.e., when you use 7, you communicate to MS (Mother > Ship). Keep this in mind. Perhaps one day, a couple of guys approaching > my house like Mormons will announce their reverence for the almighty MS, > and suggest I repent my evil ways. > > Greg About a year ago I tried to get Service Pack 3 for XP pro because I wanted a cedrtain driver. MS would not let me download the Service Pack unless I upgraded the security on my set up. I have been using Linux ever since. This is a new laptop for me, came with W indows 7 which I formatted off the drive when I installed my Linux setup, which was immediately. Wine fills the gap for certain programs I need. I am even thinking I might try Scribus in Wine, see if I have tooltips there. keith > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
