The Mighty Linux Blog: Vista, Opening Doors for Desktop Linux

Could the release of Windows Vista possibly lead the way to Linux Desktop Dominance? I came across this article today on Slashdot, and they seem to think so.

From the article:

As the time gets closer and closer to the public debut of Vista the operating system seems to be constantly losing the luster which was associated with Longhorn. It seems that this new version was originally planned to be a large step forward from XP but as we learn more about it and Microsoft's plans for the future, the changes are constantly being scaled back from what was originally promised. Whether it's the lack of a new file system or the "Monad" scripting shell, the absence of innovation in this operating system is giving it a black eye, no matter how nice the GUI is or how much Internet Explorer 7 resembles FireFox.

If this was not enough to turn people off from Vista, there are the hardware requirements. Though the exact minimum system requirements have not yet been made clear, it has been stated that a "Vista Ready" system will have 512 megabytes or more of RAM, a dedicated graphics card with DirectX 9.0 support, and a will be "modern" Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon-based PC. An older system or one with integrated graphics will be able to run Vista but will probably have to do so in more of a legacy mode, without full use of the new Aero graphics package. Speculation is rampant about what the CPU requirement will be for optimum use, but consumers may need as fast a 3.0 GHz Intel P4, or the equivalent.

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