re: Farewell to an old friend !
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3932 messages posted)
MartinM wrote:
Thoughtful, in your verbose way.
I wouldn't want to leave out any of the salient points. 8-)
I am indeed planning Unix after XP which, used carefully, is now pretty stable, usable,
well supported (by expertise and by 3rd party products) and free of MS nagging intrusion
(and dumping IE helps on the security front).
The PC I'm writing this on is dual boot - Linux/XP
Now you have me curious as to whether it came that way or...
Did you do the test drive first via bootable CD?
What distro? ..and how many distros did you go thru before installing?
- just experimenting in preparation for 2019 :-)
Each time they reach stability, M$ *does* manage to shoot itself in the foot.
The payware shrink-wrap model is hard to sustain
without obsolescence-by-design. 8-(
But you concentrate on the technical things,
Well, I wouldn't want you to miss out on any opportunities. 8-)
It appears my advocacy for Free Software does have some folks curious.
Then again, perhaps I'm taking too much credit.
Open Source really "sells" itself--once folks are aware there are options.
and all I was really saying in my own verbose way was "thanks" !
Back in the day, you steered me towards some good stuff too.
I think of all of this as one hand washing the other.
Man, is the server's RTC screwed up!
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