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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/systemrequirements.mspx
15 Gb of free space! granted linux distro can go up to 4-5 Gb but at least it's still blazing fast. BUT WAIT, you get 3D windows, oooooohhhhhh.

No thanks again Microsoft, like when XP came out, I'm sticking with my
ms-dos, Slackware, Win98se, Win2K multiboot.

Windows 95 optionally came on 13 floppy disks. Someone actually gave me a set once, I wish I had them around.

I grant you that a LOT of the frontend and backend has changed since then, but why on earth does it take 15 GB of space? Windows XP took up about 4.7 for a fresh install, and even with all the rewrites to the printing, sound, graphics and security systems, how on earth do they get a 3x increase?!

FYI, my Linux installation is currently taking up 3.8 GB of the 5 GB partition I reserved for system files; and more than a gigabyte of that is due to the data files for Celestia (followed by about 180 MB for OpenOffice 2.0, then 130 for texmf, then 110 for my collection of fonts (I somehow seem to have collected a bunch)... And I have both KDE AND Gnome libraries installed.

I bet the whole install takes 1-2GB at most if you switch off all the crap..

Like 15G is a lot or anything nowadays, who cares.

This is even more ridiculous:

http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2006/10/11/Important-Windows-Vista-Licensing-Changes.aspx

5 gigs for Internet Explorer 7

5 gigs for Solitaire

640K for the operating system

The rest is divided between eye candy, DRM, and useless help files.

That 15gb also includes space for system restore files, virtual memory, hibernation all that other crazy crap.

Slackware? Even your Linux is from the stone age. Please don't bother us complaining the XXX new software does not work on your antique rig. 15gig of HD costs around 5€ nowadays.. why bother?

Stelthz: A new version of slackware was released just over a week ago...

who cares about windows anyway? :-)

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10.5GB (Windows) - 2.66GB (System32) - 1GB (SysWOW64 - 32bit compatibility layer) = 6.84GB of Aero graphics etc. ;)

i didn't like fuzzy aero glass theme and fuzzy window shadows.

it runs on NT6 !

wtf, they stole paniq's linux arrow!!!111one

You also have to see that todays computer have >200gb disks.

Maybe I'm getting older or something, but I really can't give a damn to all this crap anymore.

We reached the saturation breakpoint a long time ago and it has definitely become distorted. There's nothing more exciting because you don't feel any limit. I recently bought an external harddrive for my job.
320 Gb for 130 euros. I even asked the guy if I can have something smaller. It wasn't fascinating. Just boring. Because who really need this at a consumer level out of servers/...?

It's the same thing with CPU. Dual Core/blah... They don't know what to do to make the things exciting.

So now I know it's only to foresee the Vista coming ! (of course without any Office suite, and almost no tools, as usual folks!)

More than ridiculous I would say scary :(

I'm a user of windows XP, to me it's a ok OS, I use linux too. But I seriously HOPE that this crap OS thingy willbe a DISASTER for Microsoft.

stfu

tribão & Stelthz: You enjoy sitting around waiting for the computer to chew through all that crap? DVD-drives isn't blazing fast you know...

oxb, 320 Gb is not enough for all the porn we need.

texel: you are absolutely true dude. well, I should know that since my 80 Gb HD wasn't enough for Breakpoint.
We should have 365 Gb HD. Full of porn. One gig per day.

And 15 Gb for the ultimate hardcore porn: Windows Vista.

Who cares? The only folks its "too bad" about is the ones with relatively new laptops without big enough disks.

I'm pretty sure that hideous UI can be configured to look less like vomit, and you can probably get around most of the licensing crap by upgrading to a cracked version.

The question is, will it run Dopus?