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Subject: Fw: End of support for 9x
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:41:49 +1000
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Haven't had many bad experiences with Win98,
and now being serious, I do use XP and cygwin,
but still prefer Win98 performance cf. XP on same H/W
Its just a pitty I won't be able to keep the CYGWIN up to date on my WIN98

>> Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or 
>> VISTA
>> is just out of the question.
>>
> I'm not surprised that you're having bad experiences with Windows if you
> insist on using obsolete, unsupported software that wasn't designed for
> modern hardware.  I expect I'd have a lot of problems too if I reinstalled
> Version 4 of Suse which I first bought over a decade ago.
>
> The jury's still out when it comes to Vista - but for XP, many users have
> found it to be a highly stable OS.  Personally, I find XP to be more 
> stable
> than 64Studio which is easily the most stable of the (ten) Linux distros
> that I've tried.  And Win2K is also excellent, as Derek suggested.
>
> Admittedly, XP's "Fisher Price" look is offputting but you don't need to
> use it.  I prefer the 'classic' look which I've used ever since XP first
> came out.  I've never once had any incompatibility problem with it.
>
> Give it a try - you might be pleasantly surprised.
>
> John
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Trans-Mit Support" <support AT transmit DOT com DOT au>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: 25 August 2008 06:10
> Subject: End of support for 9x
>
>
>> Re:-
>>> Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 
>>> Me
>>> will be discontinued with the >
>>> next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin.
>>
>> Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or 
>> VISTA
>> is just out of the question. Looks like I won't be using any new versions
>> of cygwyn
>>
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