By the way, Vista Beta 2 is available now.

See the following article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/08/vista_beta_lives/

Or more precisely, go to the Microsoft page and download or order your copy: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx

It expires 01-Jun-2007.

I'm currently running this software right now. I've had no problems with it so far, and the performance is much better than what I had when running Build 5342!

Installation takes ages, though.

Edit: I took photo's of every stage of the installation, counted the number of restarts etc. It does take a long time but it is very trouble-free. Vista picked up all my device drivers apart from audio.

Audio, thats just Vista isnt it, no audio.

And he's already unistalld it.

And installed it again, then uninstalled, then reinstalled. I'm on my third installation of it at home, and I'm running it right now on my girlfriend's computer.

My girlfriend's computer has a rating of 1, according to Vista. But I have to say, it's running extremely well! The specification of this machine is: Pentium 4 2.0GHz, 512MB DDR RAM, integrated Intel 82845G graphics, and a 40GB HDD. Boot time takes less than a minute, but obviously the Aero interface has been disabled, and isn't an option.

As for my problems with Vista at home - my girlfriend wanted to watch a DVD, but of course, there was no audio. I grabbed the audio drivers from the Abit site (I have integrated audio), and it worked fine, the drivers were signed and ready for 64-bit XP. It asked me to restart; I didn't. Instead I just carried on playing the DVD. I regret that choice now, because when I rebooted, the Realtek audio drivers were corrupt! Never mind. That's when I installed Fedora, and it died.

Do you know if the freeze dry technology works in vista. oh wait, have to wait for longhorn server :(

Yes, performance is freeze dry in Vista.