It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that were written for those platforms and they will not upgrade, for reasons of their own. I hope there will be some spot out there that will keep the last compatible versions available.
Terry Dabbs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trans-Mit Support Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:42 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Fw: End of support for 9x 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <cygwin@cygwin.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 >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/