From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 36777 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2016 16:44:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 36748 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jan 2016 16:44:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=351, H*MI:sk:56924AB, we, Hx-languages-length:665 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:44:57 +0000 Received: (qmail 85802 invoked by uid 13447); 11 Jan 2016 16:44:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Jan 2016 16:44:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Windows XP Support From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <56924AB1.1070903@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:08:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <56924AB1.1070903@gmx.de> To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >=20 > 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 su= pport in parts of the world that have changed their time zone rules since t= he discontinuation of support. > Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print. No argument, but memory and disk usage can=E2=80=99t be the primary concern= . If that=E2=80=99s all we=E2=80=99re concerned with, we=E2=80=99d still b= e running Windows NT 3.51. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple