Microsoft have a 5 year time in which they support their product.. after that, all bets are off.. win95 has no new updates available, there are some that were created when it was supported, but there are no new ones..
win98 has just about finished its support cycle, and when they kill it, they will kill 98SE as well (even though technically, it was introduced almost a year after the first win98.) win2000 gets killed in 2005 etc etc.. People who setup servers don't like to change around alot.. I still have quite a few 7.2 boxes out there.. and now I have to upgrade just because I will have to manually update from tarballs for security fixes. Its a pain, but if it helps mandrake, then so be it.. I will upgrade the 7.2's to 9.1 or manually upgrade packages on the 7.2 boxes. Oh well, such is life.. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2003 8:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Great..... after september 30 this year I won't have a single > > supportable box.... Ummmm Gentlemen..... Are you going to give me new > > laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage > > to get software that would last as long as my hardware... well... let's > > see 8 years on Win95 ... 6 on 98 ...... hmmmm me thinks the product > > life cycle is toooooooo short. if you are under the impression that M$ has an 8 year product suport for win95, you might try asking M$ what support they offer for win95, and consider that sept 2004 win95 will be 8 years old, as it was 1 year old in 1996.... > > Could someone clarify, please? Does this mean that there will be no > security fixes after those dates? If those continue we would be no worse > off than with any windows distro. After all, if it works for us now it > will continue to do so. But without security updates it's a whole new ball > game. > > Anne
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