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We test CodeTyphon ver 4.80 on
Windows 8.1 Pro

Some screens from CodeTyphon Installation and Build procedure:

1)-Copy, Unzip CodeTyphonIns.zip
2)-Execute install.bat as Administrator
3)-Install CodeTyphon.
4)-Edit/Run CodeTyphon Center as Administrator .
5)-From CodeTyphon Center execute "Remove and Build ALL (Freepascal and Typhon IDE)" action

General CT tests list for Windows 8.1 Pro

-CT System libraries installation
-CT Installation
-CT Build All procedure
-CT Update procedure
-CT ToolChains download procedure
-FreePascal compiler tests
-Typhon IDE tools tests
-CodeOcean samples tests

Some CodeOcean tests screens for CT libraries:
pl_AGG,
pl_Graphics32,
pl_ColorLib,
pl_BGRAbitmap, pl_BGRAcontrols,
pl_VirtualTrees,
pl_AGGPas,
pl_ExControls,
pl_OpenGL,
etc...

sternas wrote: General CT tests list for Windows 8.1 Pro
Windows 8.1 is the latest MS operating system.
For as the "Modern UI" (?) makes almost no sense.
Trying to control it with a mouse and keyboard is hard work, and that’s being kind. Plus, the minimalist approach, which sees toolbars and other controls hidden off-screen by default, is confusing even for our hardened Windows programmers.

We continue to use Windows 7 as "Lab Windows main OS"...

I use Classic Shell to get Start button for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and bypass Windows 8 Start Screen.


www.classicshell.net/

Yes I know Sir,
but for as the "Base Philosophy" is the subject
For as Win 8.0-8.1 and GNOME 3 are in the wrong way...
"Table OS or/and Desktop OS" is NOT our option
"Desktop OS with Table OS" is a better approach...

Depending on the "old habits", Win8 can feel like Win7
For example: I used Totalcommander instead of the explorer for ages already, which has a (multi row) button bar, where I put everything I ever need to launch, so even in Win7 the start menu nor the explorer was never used (Except for one item: the TotalCommander launch itself). (Tip: If in the Button Properties %N is entered as a parameter, the file (or directory) under the cursor is provided as parameter for the started program, so one file can be easily opened with different programs regardless of present file associations)

For low latency audio I found for a long time Win7 more suitable than Win8, until recently, when RME Babyface updated their ASIO-drivers again. To my surprise now I can use 48 samples ( = 1 ms buffer size @ 48 kHz) in Win8 without occasional crackling in sound when dragging a window around, whereas in Win7 on the same machine (dual boot) even the same new driver still exhibits a tiny crackling occasionally when dragging a window around as before.

If Win8.1 keeps that improvement I could not test yet, though. (Unfortunately such things can not be tested in a VM, which would be fast and hassle free).

Practical problems:
last HPC in our LAB:
-Dual Opteron 6370P (2x16 cores)
-ASUS KGPE-D16
-64 GBytes RAM
-etc, etc...
We think, this is the main "Programming PC Configuration", 1-1,5 year after .

Can you suggest the OS for this Programming HPC ?
Win8.1 Pro?
Windows Server 2012 R2 ?
Other?

Such an "insane" machine deserves a multi boot configuration.
Because it depends on the kind of programming projects. (The server OS for server applications (optimized for throughput), the desktop OS for low latency applications (graphic and/or sound).
But maybe such a machine is more a stress-testing platform than a programming platform.
The reason is, that different programming environments need their own VM each, because often they interfere with each other heavily. And such an "insane" machine is the perfect host for such VMs.
So the choice is easy: collect all recent main projects target OS-es on that machine in multi boot, the rest in VMs.

This is only personal opinion, this is what I do (on a quite smaller scale)