There’s no explanation nowhere and I just have to deal with it. My RAID controller and the Intel Turbo Memory are mutually exclusive. Obviously, there was a problem with Windows.
– why can’t OS makers make smart OSes? Remember that 32 bit versions of Windows up to Vista were limited to 3GB? 32-bit Mac OS X 10.5 managed more than that. The questions that arose from that comment are: So memory freedom is something I had never thought about. I’ve never filled the 2GB in my laptop in 2 years. What is it, that’s so crucial, that Word 2007 can do today that I couldn’t do in 2000 with Word 97?Ĭan you think of a single relatively common application (or task) that: In 2000, I was using Office 97 and Windows 95 on a Pentium 133Mhz Olivetti laptop with with god knows how much RAM. I have memories of my father using a word processor on an Amstrad CPC6128 in the late 80s. Does anyone recall what was the standard laptop RAM size in 2000? I’m really interested into knowing. That’s what I was saying in my previous comment: we’ve just settled for what’s been given to us as some sort of OS gospel dyed with consumerism. If you really need stability and performance and no practical limitations, choose a real Unix, not Linux.
Even today, people can not use 32bit Windows to its full extent, more and more need the power and memory freedom from 64bit. For entertainment, I have a TV, a Wii, a smartphone and -yes- a Windblows machine here (which runs Ubuntu in a VM in case I need to bring some work home…)ģ2bit kernel? That is not… a good choice for an OS, too limited. I can surf the web, do emails and use word processing and spreadsheets. Until then, I gladly pay 149 bucks to have an OS that has no exposure to any virus threat and (especially important for Germany) no way of being able to incorporate a government backdoor spyware. That day come, can still decide which OS to go with… Haiku? Why not.
Who cares? I’ll ride the pony til it dies. True, the kernel is 32bit “only” and will perhaps never grow to anything beyond that unless rewritten from scratch (good luck here…) and in some time, hardware will cease to support 32bit architecture. Windows is hiding its ugly internals behind polished interfaces and Linux will (forever) do exactly what you want it to do only if you quit its GUI and type a 300+ chars commandline by heart in a shell.
While its UI will never be as pretty as Win/Mac, nor its core will ever be as “good” or “open” as with Linux, it’s being “the thing in between” that I like. Other than that, nobody forces you to buy it. The thing is, people still think eCS WILL or MUST HAVE TO compete with Windows, Linux flavours or Mac… but that’s simply not true. There is a lot it can’t do, even at its high price. The Home and Student version can be installed on five computers the expensive version can be installed on an unlimited amount of machines.
The expensive version has telephone support and twelve months of software subscription services, whereas the Home and Student version has online support and just six months of software subscription services. Home and Student goes for 149 USD, whereas the regular version goes for 259 USD. They’ve now created a Home and Student version which is considerably cheaper than the normal version. The cool thing is that Serenity Systems has listened to the most common heard complaint regarding eComStation: its high price. However, that was the first release candidate, and four more followed over the past three years, so a lot has probably improved since then. “The installer definitely needs some form of hardware recognition, and the various system settings dialogs and applets should receive an overall treatment, making them more consistent among one another, while also doing a better job at hiding advanced features (using the interesting multiple pages per tab option).”
Installing applications is painless (Windows-like installers, mostly), and the excellent compatibility with Windows 3.x and MS-DOS gives major brownie points to eCS.” It offers interesting GUI elements, and a lot of configurability. “First and foremost, eCS is a good system,” the review states, “It is stable, relatively easy to use, and fast. I wrote a review of the first release candidate back in June 2007, which was fairly positive overall. We first reported on eComStation 2.0 back in December 2005, when the first beta was released, and between then and now, we’ve seen countless betas and release candidates come and go, but the wait is finally over. After god knows how many years, it’s finally here: the final release of eComStation 2.0.