From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Windows XP Support
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FD17DFE9-D06D-40A5-85E3-C1EB74BD6A7B@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56924AB1.1070903@gmx.de>
On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Herbert Stocker <hersto@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> WinXP is still a good OS.
That was only true while Microsoft was maintaining it. Now there are many known security vulnerabilities which will never be patched.
I expect there are other problems with it, too, like incorrect time zone support in parts of the world that have changed their time zone rules since the discontinuation of support.
> Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print.
No argument, but memory and disk usage can’t be the primary concern. If that’s all we’re concerned with, we’d still be running Windows NT 3.51.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-11 16:44 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
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 [this message]
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