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I haven't tried any of them but once I made a Windows 98 Live CD with a DriveSpace volume that had Quake installed as a feasibility study for RAM disk usage on an embedded system.

There are a few Windows Live CDs, mostly based on BartPE. Many of them are integrated into Live CDs that can be used for web browsing or playing music while the OS is being installed in the background. Graphical installers are easier but require more memory. Text installers are not as friendly but work on systems with limited memory. Like Ubuntu and Debian most Linux distributions come with text or graphical installers or both.

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Windows Update only covers Microsoft products so other applications need their own update functions else you have to do them manually. You can achieve some of the same benefits on Windows with the AIK, WinPE, WDS, and slipstreaming but you still have to deal with licensing, product activation, and updating. I use an internal mirror with netbooting via PXELinux that's partially automated using Kickstart so my installations are very fast and already updated. Its updating can take longer but the package manager updates everything, not just the OS. Ubuntu's graphical installation process is a lot faster, especially considering the number of applications included. The earlier messages may have been referring to updates on the ISO that weren't slipstreamed. The progress messages from the setup screen did seem to indicate some updates were installed but after logging in Windows Update installed some more.

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I don't remember the details about the one Vista installation and update process was like but both are faster to install than XP with it's service pack and several updates that often have to be performed sequentially. The installation and updates took a long time with several reboots (and of course entering the 25 digit key). Like in XP it is single-task based so that every partition edit is immediately applied while most Linux installers queue up a series of operations and then perform them in a batch.

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The only really useful addition is the ability to use USB storage devices to load drivers instead of requiring a floppy drive. Windows 7 Setup is graphical like those on most Linux distributions (which they've had for many years) but the functionality isn't much better than the XP installer. The beta is the Ultimate edition which will be the most expensive of the lot. I gave the Windows 7 VM 2GB of memory and a pair of 16GB virtual volumes. An XP VM runs just fine on the same system. Drive encryption doesn't affect performance much with modern processors as the drives are so much slower. I'm using a Phenom 9550 with 8GB PC2-6400 ECC memory and a pair of Maxtor IDE drives using software RAID (md), LVM, and LUKS/dm-crypt. I downloaded the 64-bit DVD ISO (3.2GB) and installed it on VMware Player 2.5 on 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04.2 (Hardy Heron). I feel that a virtual machine is not a good way to benchmark a desktop OS because there are too many variables.

I'm not going to install Vista in VMware to compare either. I haven't worked for them since the Windows 7 beta was released so I can't install it on the same system. I charge by the hour so it really wasn't a problem. Over RDC it was even worse with constant stalling especially compared to a Windows Server 2003 system on the same network ( disabling auto-tuning didn't fix it either). The customer I did ECAD work for insisted on it which reduced the workstation performance by half compared to the previously installed XP, even with Aero disabled. I haven't used Vista much as I have no need for it internally and only used it at a customer site a while ago. I can't give a fair comparison between Vista and Windows 7 so I'll be referencing XP a lot.

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It's only a minor upgrade from Vista with some stuff added and removed but the fanatics have been evangelizing it like it's a start of a new era in computing technology. But I tried out the Windows 7 beta just so I can settle arguments about what it can or can't do. After years of being a Windows user ( since 2.0) and an administrator I've learned to ignore the marketing hype surrounding new Windows versions.