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Re: [LUG] (Another rant) [Fwd: Microsoft shuts down Windows 98]

 

Paul Weaver wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 15:16, Tom Potts wrote:
>>     
>>> DON'T BUY WINXP!!! Just cos its not supported doesn't mean it'll stop
>>> working!
>>>       
>> Sorry, but what amazingly bad advice.
>>
>> Sure, you don't have buy Windows XP, but that doesn't mean you need to 
>> continue using a buggy, security hole ridden OS.
>>     
> That what Tom said, don't buy XP :)
>
> Remember, most machines running Windows 98 aren't powerful enough to run 2K or XP. 
> It's a choice between
> 1) Buy a new machine (which will have XP)
> 2) Upgrade to a cut-down version of Linxu (which they'll have major
> problems understanding. It will be running something like blackbox,
> firefox might be too bloated etc)
> 3) Stay as it is
>
> 95% of people will choose option 3, the other 5% will choose option 1
> (they probably will have done so anyway
I always found IceWM to be a nice, lightweight graphical environment 
that ex-Windows users sh/would be happy to use given about 0.5h.

Grant.

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