On Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 09:22:44 +1100 (+1100), John Hunt wrote:
> I heard the next version is meant to be stripped right down:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#MinWin
Bit fed up of reading about this in the press w.r.t. Vista. MinWin is
_not_ for desktops - it's more intended for server farms (at least
that's my understanding of it). Think of it as a "rescue disk" or
bare-bones linux install - kernel, CLI shell, that's about it. You
then run a webserver (without X-Windows, GNOME or KDE). MinWin is
about removing the GNOME requirement in effect (i.e. the naff GUI on
windows).
Vista would be just as bloated - it's not the kernel that's taking up
2GB of disk, it's all the applications they insist on shipping without
even giving you the option of removing them.
Adrian
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