mcbridematt's Journal: Longhorn 4008

I recently installed Longhorn Build 4008 on my lappy, even though I did have both Longhorn 3683 & 4008 on my desktop a few months back.

First, I recommend you look at My wine-devel post

My 3d2001SE marks dropped from 672 to 630. Consider the fact that my Duron 920Mhz Desktop with a GeForce4 Ti gets a 6300.

DirectX 9 games don't seem to work, freezing at startup. Gunmetal froze on my desktop, and 3dMark2003 refused to work on my lappy (it would only get around 10 :) ).

Anyway:

* A lot of references to Windoze XP have been changed to 'Longhorn Professional'. A notable exception is the Help center
* ZoneAlarm completely doesn't work at all, in terms of firewall.
* Now you know if you will get a Blaster message. The RPC service crashes, then issues a shutdown.
* Explorer crashes a lot. Remember, its a .net app
* I've discovered that Explorer and the sidebar are DirectX Apps
* The Intersil Prism Driver can't find its hardware, even though 802.11b still functions.

Re:I for one will move onto the server line.

[mcbridematt]

Me too. Win Server 2003 can muster more performance than any of the client OS'es.

But since Longhorn Server, like it's client brother, will require at least a DX-7 vid card, that may not go down well with server admins