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What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

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In practical terms, it means that performance advancements on the hardware side are quickly consumed by the ever-increasing complexity of the Windows/Office code base. Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago (Office 2000)…

Interesting reading!

Apple: Arrogance, Untruths, and Karma

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More Vista-bashing commercials appeared yesterday, compliments of quite possibly the most arrogant company in history. I love a good spoof (I had a good laugh over the first “cancel/allow” ad), but when you keep spewing the same false bullshit over and over it becomes obnoxious. It also shows me a company full of people and users that have a serious inferiority complex.
Let us just review the reviews of their latest release shall we???
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Fedora 8 Is Out

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Codenamed “Werewolf”, hehe that beats “Feisty Fawn” any day! 😎
Article with more info at Arstechnica.
Download links, reviews, etc. at Distrowatch.

I’m downloading now, about 1/2 an hour left. I’ll attempt an install shortly.
If you have any good links for Fedora 8, please post them.

*edit
I attempted an install on my main rig (several times, using several methods). The install always freezes right after ‘keyboard selection’. I’ve neither the time nor desire to do this on one of my other machines. Bye, bye Fedora, and, bite me Werewolf…