Re: [tlug] Fwd: ITS Service Update - Windows Vista

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus+NO2@example.com>]

2007/10/19, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com>:
> Thank God I'm a Linux boy!  Even RHEL releases get qualified faster
> than this!
>
> FYA
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Information Technology Services <help@example.com>
> Date: Oct 18, 2007 1:54 PM
> Subject: ITS Service Update -  Windows Vista
> To: ucsc_campus@example.com
>
>
> October 18, 2007
>
> To: UCSC Faculty and Staff
> From: Information Technology Services (ITS)
>
> RE: Windows Vista Update
>
> Since the public release of Windows Vista in January, ITS
> has been testing and validating critical services and
> systems for compatibility. We are writing to provide you
> with an update.
>
> Vista is not yet fully supported by ITS for all IT
> services and systems.
>
> Many large organizations are waiting to deploy and support
> Windows Vista until the first major update service pack
> one is released. Microsoft recently announced plans to
> release Vista service pack one in the first quarter of
> 2008 and we expect to be able to fully support Vista
> sometime after this release.
>

It is still an open and complex question that why and how Open sourses
OSes like Linux are more stable and easier to manage than closes
source OSes like Windows ( see below ). The most stable OS in Windows
line is 2000 and MSFT still supports it. XP is good as of now but it
was a nightmare before SP1. I think the same thing will happens to
Vista: Wait for SP1.


I think Vista was not well tested so it was/is buggy until now. Linux
packager like RH has Fedora as a test bad. It has a huge test effort
from the community and RH use that to keep RHEL in the stable line,
traditional software making process.


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Nguyen Hung Vu
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