Celestia, Vista64 thoughts
Posted: 28.01.2008, 19:20
Hi all!
I have installed Vista 64 ultimate on this machine and I would like to share my experience with you.
First impression: the very "picky" security features of Vista are great.
As a long-time Linux user, I like the fact that the ordinary user is granted limited access rights to the system.
Elevated rights procedures and/or run as Admin plus command line knowledge mandatory for some operations is "familiar" and right on spot security-wise.
Experienced OSX users may feel comfortable in this environment too.
I have installed the official Celestia 1.5.0 as released "out-of-the-box".
No problem at all. The installer did its job cleanly.
Then, I moved all my heavily customized config files, solarsys.ssc, extras and all to the new Celestia install.
No glitch, no pain. Everything is running smooth, as fast as on XP or Linux.
Better than XP obviously when large add-ons are loaded, thanks to the OS seeing and taking advantage of the full 4GB memory.
As expected, rendering of transparent models is on par with XP.
Linux is still lagging behind in this department, even with the latest Nvidia drivers.
One caveat though, if you intend to multiboot Vista with XP!
This is a very-very bad idea.
XP will systematically wipe out your Vista restore points and documents history every time it is launched.
No work-around, it's built-in into XP.
Bottom line: if you migrate to Vista, import your settings and forget about XP for good, unless you can disable physically the Vista drive/partition when booting XP.
Dual-boot with Linux is a breeze.
Keep the Vista boot loader happy and just use EasyBcd on top of it to set up a nice dual-boot environment.
EasyBcd will create a virtual Grub bootloader that will point to your Linux boot drive.
Do not listen to all the crap about Vista.
It will run almost anything with similar or better performance.
It looks like it is a great OS, at least in its 64-bit full-fledged flavor.
Now, I am going to put 8GB memory in this rig and a 45 nm quad processor just for the fun
I have installed Vista 64 ultimate on this machine and I would like to share my experience with you.
First impression: the very "picky" security features of Vista are great.
As a long-time Linux user, I like the fact that the ordinary user is granted limited access rights to the system.
Elevated rights procedures and/or run as Admin plus command line knowledge mandatory for some operations is "familiar" and right on spot security-wise.
Experienced OSX users may feel comfortable in this environment too.
I have installed the official Celestia 1.5.0 as released "out-of-the-box".
No problem at all. The installer did its job cleanly.
Then, I moved all my heavily customized config files, solarsys.ssc, extras and all to the new Celestia install.
No glitch, no pain. Everything is running smooth, as fast as on XP or Linux.
Better than XP obviously when large add-ons are loaded, thanks to the OS seeing and taking advantage of the full 4GB memory.
As expected, rendering of transparent models is on par with XP.
Linux is still lagging behind in this department, even with the latest Nvidia drivers.
One caveat though, if you intend to multiboot Vista with XP!
This is a very-very bad idea.
XP will systematically wipe out your Vista restore points and documents history every time it is launched.
No work-around, it's built-in into XP.
Bottom line: if you migrate to Vista, import your settings and forget about XP for good, unless you can disable physically the Vista drive/partition when booting XP.
Dual-boot with Linux is a breeze.
Keep the Vista boot loader happy and just use EasyBcd on top of it to set up a nice dual-boot environment.
EasyBcd will create a virtual Grub bootloader that will point to your Linux boot drive.
Do not listen to all the crap about Vista.
It will run almost anything with similar or better performance.
It looks like it is a great OS, at least in its 64-bit full-fledged flavor.
Now, I am going to put 8GB memory in this rig and a 45 nm quad processor just for the fun