Anyone used Longhorn? I'm getting it right now

Geminiwave · Aug 19, 2004, 05:25 PM

So I'm on the MS parter program and I signed up to try out Longhorn...well im downloading it now anyway.

so has anyone used it? whats it like? Are there any suggestions for how I should set it up?

it looks cool, its new, not many people have it, so I downloaded it. Other than that, this is completely n00b territory for me.

Gardinen · Aug 19, 2004, 05:31 PM

yeah, I've tried to install it. Didn't get very far though. I couldn't find any proper SATA drivers.

Zelig · Aug 19, 2004, 06:50 PM

It's not due out for years, and compatibility isn't great with it... I'd rather try out Windows XP 64 bit edition.

MythicaL · Aug 19, 2004, 08:26 PM

I wouldn't want to try anything beta... period.

Dom · Aug 19, 2004, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MythicaL

I wouldn't want to try anything beta... period.

Actually, Longhorn is still alpha, as far as I know.

Geminiwave · Aug 19, 2004, 11:07 PM

yup. Alpha. Its actually really good on my friends computer(slow, yes. but good)

Anyway has anyone gotten it working and checked it out?

No_Style · Aug 20, 2004, 12:57 AM

I checked it out in VMWare. It worked fine except for the fact that I only got 8-bit colour since VMWare's video drivers didn't workout with Longhorn. A nice look into the future.. Everything seemed kinda big though.. I'll be getting rid of a lot of the large panels and stuff.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 20, 2004, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Dom

Actually, Longhorn is still alpha, as far as I know.

can't be too bad they used some of it's code in the SP2 update...
But yea it's not even at at a beta stage yet way to early in develpement but people still call it beta ...

Geminiwave · Aug 20, 2004, 11:02 AM

thats because it works. Its a RARE alpha that actually runs.

From what I've seen, longhorn is slow and incompatible with many programs as of yet. But it in-and-of-itself runs fine and reletively crashfree.

MythicaL · Aug 20, 2004, 11:54 AM

What IS the difference between Alpha and Beta... where is Gamma?

Zelig · Aug 20, 2004, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MythicaL

What IS the difference between Alpha and Beta... where is Gamma?

Alpha versions come before beta versions, and are usually for developers only, not for widespread testing.

sak28wa · Aug 20, 2004, 11:56 PM

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What IS the difference between Alpha and Beta... where is Gamma?

Gamma is aht home bakin me ah Appa Pie, yeserrie Bob!

MMmmMMmmm!

And of course Omega is running around here someplace or off working on his awesome drivers.

Serendipity · Aug 21, 2004, 07:21 PM

[color=white]I briefly installed version 4074 on a P4 2.4GHz with 512MB ram and a Radeon 9000 and it all ran quite well on the stock drivers packaged with the OS.[/color]

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[color=white]I tried out a few games like UT2004 and played around with the 3D desktop effects and it all worked fine, if a little slow. But as mentioned above itâ€™s only just out of pre-alpha stage and being designed to take advantage of the kind of hardware thatâ€™ll be available when itâ€™s released in 2006, so todayâ€™s equipment canâ€™t do it justice.[/color]
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[color=#000000][color=white]By all means have a play with it, but I wouldnâ€™t waste any time trying to run it as your primary OS, yet, unless the exclusivity is really important to you.[/color]

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Geminiwave · Aug 22, 2004, 10:42 AM

ah but the exclusivity is EXTREMELY important. I'm lazy though, so I guess it may not come to see the light.

we'll see.

~~bigirb2002~~ · Sep 7, 2004, 10:33 PM

yes iv used it with winfs enabled it was slow when browsing the disk altho amazin.explorer crashe frequeqly the side taskbar leaked alot of memory but i was able to run all games smoothly which made me like longhorn