Vista and Dapper

There is a review of Windows Vista at TomsHardware.com. This is an older site known for giving indepth reviews. This one is 40 pages long. There are many screen shots. After clicking 11 or 12 times, it was decided this was not early morning reading. Here's an excerpt:

In less than a year - assuming that the dates slip no further - Microsoft will release a new operating system under the thrilling name of "Windows Vista." Internally, Windows Vista is identified as Windows version number 6.0. Thus, we're dealing with an entirely new version here, in contrast to Windows XP, which really only represented an update to Windows 2000.

This is probably good review, but the size is a bit much. I want to know if they think this new operating system is stable, easy to use and priced right. There is little doubt they get to all those issues eventually. This site has been a favorite for years and it's nice to see someone take the time (500 hours!) to do a good review, but 40 pages are just too much for an early morning 'no coffee yet' read. More later.

Here's another interesting review of an operating system that is available today, Ubuntu Dapper. Lunapark6 does a good job and has my interest in trying this distribution of Linux. The review is concise, has screen shots and lets me know in the first paragraph that this is a very positive review. After FreeBSD is installed on a beach house machine this version of Linux may be next.

Thanks goes out to Slashdot for the review links!

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