Anyone tried Longhorn 4051?

#1 ofelas

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 09:03 PM

A developer buddy of mine says it's interesting & fast once it's tweaked, but apparently the 'download manager' in IE is broken/finicky...what do y'all think of it?

Thanks...

#2 sapiens74

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 09:34 PM

Ive tried to get on the beta

Hopefully when the offical beta comes out Ill get it

#3 vaughaag

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 10:28 PM

Longhorn is not in Beta stage yet it is an Alpha project still, therefore only subscribers of MSDN and other selected people will officialy have copies of Longhorn, though many warez sites offer it as a download.

Unless you are fairly confident with Operating Systems I would stear away from Longhorn untill a RC come out for Beta testing.

#4 Four and Twenty

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Posted 28 February 2004 - 01:35 PM

i have 4051 running right now. It is a bit funky with explorer crashing sometimes, but the system its self is very stable. I like it a lot. It is fast as hell. It installs in like 15 mins as opposed to the 30-45 that 2k and xp took.

#5 clutch

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Posted 20 March 2004 - 06:44 AM

If you disable the sidebar (with the pimpy clock) that should address the crashing issue. The OS also *needs* 512MB of RAM or more to get by. It isn't very happy running in virtual machines, but it does support Whidbey (the next VS.NET) so that's why I have been trying to use it.