From: "Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez" <juanmi.3000@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows XP Support
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 02:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5692EEA8.4000703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5692DBF5.3040100@comcast.net>
No software version can live forever, specially if it is a security
programs (OpenSSL, LibreSSL, GnuPG, ...) or programs and applications
that need the first ones, and that includes Operative Systems and Kernel.
And that's not a Microsoft thing, Linux as well has it.
Linux Kernel LTS support is 2-3 years, for Debian is 1 year after
release of next stable version, Ubuntu is 5 years and 9 months for STS
and both LinuxMint and Trisquel 5 years as well.
At least Windows XP got 13 years of support and since Windows Vista its
10 years.
On 2016-01-10 at 23:32, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am also new to the LINUX world and would like very much to see XP
> "live forever".
>
> I still use XP as my main "go to" machine.
> But ... Microsoft's continuing "march to bigger and better" and my
> reluctance to be forced to repeatedly buy new bigger and faster
> machinery to accommodate the new windows systems has nudged me out of my
> complacency - I am now using Cygwin and learning LINUX.
>
> If Cygwin continues to support XP, it will continue to serve as "that
> bright city on a hill", giving us old Microsoft Ludditess a comfortable
> "stepping stone" that encourages us to switch to LINUX.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-10 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-10 17:43 Herbert Stocker
2016-01-10 23:52 ` Terry McCarty - WA5NTI
2016-01-11 2:05 ` Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez [this message]
2016-01-11 17:20 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-01-11 21:31 ` cyg Simple
2016-01-11 22:44 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-01-12 4:25 ` Peter A. Castro
2016-01-11 19:25 ` Warren Young
2016-01-12 9:28 ` Andrey Repin
2016-01-11 3:54 ` Mike Brown
2016-01-11 14:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-11 15:41 ` wilson
2016-01-11 17:46 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-01-11 18:31 ` Jon Beniston
2016-01-11 17:05 ` Warren Young
2016-01-11 19:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-01-11 17:08 ` Warren Young
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