MinWin and Windows 7 – You got it all wrong

Somedays ago when i was traveling to Bangalore from Manipal in the Bus i read a tweet about MinWin from Aditya and day after that he tweeted this “aditya: @Ankur MinWin exists in Vista too. I’m still not buying the ‘modular OS’ theory, and from I’ve seen, W7 keeps me happy about buying a Mac ” now i know he is a big mac fanboy but that made me think how many people are thinking that MinWin is a part of Windows 7 ( when ever it comes ) well its not, just see this and notice

Now, this is an internal only - you won’t see us productizing this - but you could imagine this being used as the basis for products in the future. This is the Windows 7 source code base, and it’s about 25 megs on disk. Compare that to the four gigs on disk that the full Windows Vista takes up. We don’t have a graphics subsystem other than text in this particular build

I also noticed this in Wikipedia

A minimalistic variation of the Windows kernel, known as MinWin, was being developed for use in Windows 7

Come on people try to understand this MinWin in not something made exclusively for Windows 7, rather The code from Windows 7 Kernel was taken and slimmed down to make MinWin, so Windows 7 will be like addition of more crap over Vista
Now who will tell them them and them
Anyways i am Happy with my Fedora 9 Laptop……..

PS – Aditya i have nothing against you buddy

fedora, kernel, Minwin, Windows 7

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This entry was posted by Ankur Shrivastava on June 16, 2008 at 6:59 pm, and is filed under fedora, Stuff, Windows. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

http://www.manishsinha.info Manish

I cant believe that the bare minimum kernel is being really developed. The kernel is not the only thing which gives Linux the real power.
Microsoft would have to develop a shell too as powerful as those available with Linux.

Let’s see what happens..
http://lifesblog.wordpress.com dinkar

bhai u sure about that … from what i’ve heard windows 7 kernel will be rid of all the crap …and minwin will play a lot of role in guiding what the kernel of windows 7 becomes …
http://ankurs.com Ankur Shrivastava

@Manish
I agree with you and not only a shell, Linux Kernel has been ported to a hell lot of architectures i dont know how windows will do that……….

@Dinkar
Bhai just watch the whole video and you will understand that MinWin IS NOT MADE FOR Windows 7 rather code for Win 7 was taken and MinWin was formed………………
surjodeb

@ankur,
interesting thoughts n views… but i’m sure even u’ll like what’s gonna come in win7 .
http://ankurs.com Ankur Shrivastava

@surjodeb
well i only use Linux from a long time and i am more the happy with what it offers, so far the only addition in Vista was crap and i dont think anymore will go into Win 7 after what happened to Vista but still you never know, the only thing i MIGHT shift to is KDE 4.1
http://djkaos.wordpress.com Djays

Microsoft is still trying to achieve goals that it can’t look at how vista was supposed to be and how it turned out to be. They will probably mix and mash vista kernel, add features which were meant to be with vista but were not there ,and in the end scrap up the entire project due to security concerns
http://ankurs.com Ankur Shrivastava

@Djays
i agree with you but still its very big and have lots of brains and i was looking for WinFS in Vista but its not going to be there in any of iy i guess