Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-30 Thread Mike DePaulo
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen > Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200 > --- > > > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread KHMan
On 8/30/2015 9:53 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Bryan Berns! On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is on the way. From what I've se

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >>> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > > on the way. > From what I've seen and heard

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:57:06AM -0400, Bryan Berns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > >> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >>> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > >>> > > on the w

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
AC sent the following at Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:57 PM >On 2015-08-26 18:04, Andrey Repin wrote: Well rsync is fine for making >>> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >>> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >>> just want t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> That doesn't solve the hotkeys bound at driver levels, unfortunately. >> >> Half of my keyboard dead now thanks to the move to Win7. >> >> > I don't understand this one. Quick explanation, please, even if it's OT? >> >> I was using Win+Arrows to switch between

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, AC wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:30:27 -0700 From: AC Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Stephen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >>> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is >>> > > on the way. >>> > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 02:42, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> > >> > On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >> >> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 > >> >> > > is > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, AC! >>> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >>> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >>> just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. >> >> man rsync >> >> > Well rsync is fine for making mirro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread AC
On 2015-08-26 18:04, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, AC! > >> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >> just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. > > man rsync > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, AC! > Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a > mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I > just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. You'll also need to specify your mirror address in the command line

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, AC! > Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a > mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I > just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. man rsync -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, August 27

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread AC
On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! >> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. >> >>> Yo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> > On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >> >> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is >> >> > > on the way. >> >> > From what I've seen and heard W10, wh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > >> > > on the way. > >> > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces > >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Frank Fesevur
2015-08-26 15:42 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin: > And since Vista+ doesn't have support for 16-bit subsystem, I need XP VM to > compile my projects. AFAIK the 16-bit subsystem has nothing to do with XP vs Vista+. It has to do with 32-bit OS vs 64-bit OS. Have you tried a 32 bit Win7 (or maybe even a 32-b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! > >>> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final >>> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. > >> You will need more than mirrors. You will need to set up a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! >> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final >> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. > You will need more than mirrors. You will need to set up a parallel > stack of builders and other tools because th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 26 August 2015 at 06:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >>> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is >>> > > on the way. >>> > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerce

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Mike DePaulo
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen > > > > Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway > > > since1991 ;) > > > > Heh. > > But thanks cygwin it's a place where I can live :-) At Flock (Fedora Contributor Conference), I met peop

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is >> > > on the way. >> > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users >> > towards the software as (an expensive) serv

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen > > Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway > > since1991 ;) > > Heh. But thanks cygwin it's a place where I can live :-) -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > > > on the way. > > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users > > towards the software as (an expensive) service model and follows the dictum > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
> Good luck finding all the Microsoft spyware. From what I can tell, Win 10 > defaults to reporting almost everything to the company for their spam > servers to use. >From my first inspection the remote-adress is something with akamai (may differ in other regions). I did shut them all down with

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread briansw
> I hope I can customize it [Win 10] to behave like XP (only the goodies of course). And shutdown/disable all the spying internet-connections. Good luck finding all the Microsoft spyware. From what I can tell, Win 10 defaults to reporting almost everything to the company for their spam servers to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
> > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > > on the way. > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users > towards the software as (an expensive) service model and follows the dictum > that Microsoft knows more about what you want than

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread wilson
> > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for > > XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. > He - I'm still on XP! So am I. Windows 7 doesn't have some features I rely on and Windows 8.X was a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200 --- > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for > XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. He -

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. At this point I'll remove all my XP and 2003 test installations which are already going mouldy for a l