Comments on: Best ‘Feature’ of Vista 7 is Finally Found: It ‘Deletes’ GNU/Linux Partitions

By: ZiggyFish

ZiggyFish — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:48:49 +0000

Why download the wallpapers when you can create them your self

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/vista-like-wallpaper.html

By: AhmedG

AhmedG — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:09:24 +0000

Those Windows 7 wallpapers look an awful lot like some of the Linux wallpapers on kde-look.org. I’m not usually one to make comments like that but it’s true. In fact there are 100s of different places to get great wallpapers. Windows 7 has no vision. It’s a series of “features” that look nice in a demo.

I don’t know what de Icaza is so excited about with Silverlight eiter. It looks like JavaFX is already set to over take that, and you won’t need any “new” plugins to make use of that. OpenJDK has a pretty good java plug-in now and it works in 64bit as well. Silverlight never seems to work, not even on Windows.

By: Shane Coyle

Shane Coyle — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:15:49 +0000

Haven't seen Windows 7 yet (or Vista, for that matter), but anyone searching for fonts should at least try the good folks at OpenFontLibrary.org. I feature them, in addition to OpenClipart.org in the EDU-Nix.org Live Office CD.

By: pcolon

pcolon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:11:08 +0000

PCLinuxOS Tiny-ME has a pretty decent “dark scheme”. Twitter & Mincr from IRC led me a while back to a web site which contains hundreds of free “un-MS” fonts that will appeal even to the most hard core font hunter. NTFS still sucks big time (data corruption: with SCSI & SAS – don’t know if it’s due to scsi dsk reservation, loss and/or MFT, bad quorem writes).

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:03:23 +0000

I guess the strong feature of Vista 7 is downloadable for GNU/Linux too.

By: aeshna23

aeshna23 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:58:26 +0000

The default wallpaper is ugly. It’s the other photographs. I like the bison one. Microsoft can something right. I don’t know that I would have done such a good job purchasing a pretty photograph of a bison. You can search the C:\Windows folders for jpg’s. Also, lifehacker.com had a post on how to download some additional wallpapers for Windows 7 from MS. I did that also.

In terms of the fonts, I was just making a suggestion for people who had been smart enough to never purchase Windows. The fonts may not be unique, but if you’ve bothered to install Windows 7 and don’t have the fonts, they are probably worth saving before repurposing the Windows partition. And by the way, what’s up with MS still using the archaic NTFS in 2009?

By: pcolon

pcolon — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:41:05 +0000

The default wallpaper is a copy of an existing graphic called “underwater”. As for the fonts, there’s nothing really unique there.

By: aeshna23

aeshna23 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:08:33 +0000

When I installed Windows 7, I took the precaution of unplugging all the hard drives in my machine except the one on which I was installing Windows 7.

I played with Windows 7 and found one excellent feature: Microsoft provides some quality photos for your desktop wallpaper. I saved those to a Linux partition. Also, you may want to save the fonts Microsoft provides with Windows 7, before you use the Windows partition for better purposes. You can find the fonts in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.