Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Erik Soderquist wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:26:39 -0500 From: Erik Soderquist Subject: Re: Windows XP Support Greetings, Erik, On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote: Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through COBOL code

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > On Jan 10, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: >> >> No software version can live forever > Indeed, not even Linux. > There’s a thread over on the CentOS mailing list right now started by > someone who’s trying to get something working on CentOS 3,

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through > COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either > upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running. Actually I agree

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 13:12, Herbert Stocker wrote: > Hi, > > i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support > for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk > about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? So far, nothing has changed, XP is still

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a > burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not > required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of > that

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:38 AM, wilson wrote: > I'd like to say a sincere thank you to Corina (and the rest of the team) for > supporting XP for this long, and I hope she stays so busy the issue of > removing XP support never becomes a priority. :) I rather expect it will more be a matter of a

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: > > WinXP is still a good OS. That was only true while Microsoft was maintaining it. Now there are many known security vulnerabilities which will never be patched. I expect there are other problems with it, too, like

RE: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Jon Beniston
Windows XP still accounts for about 10% of desktop users... Similar to the total number of Mac users. Maybe some browser OS stats from cygwin.com would be illuminating. Jon -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread wilson
On Jan 10 13:12, Herbert Stocker wrote: Hi, i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? So far, nothing has changed, XP is still supported. I

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 10, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: > > No software version can live forever Indeed, not even Linux. There’s a thread over on the CentOS mailing list right now started by someone who’s trying to get something working on CentOS 3, which is

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 09:25, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > > Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a > > burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not > > required anymore in newer

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread cyg Simple
On 1/11/2016 12:05 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: >> No software version can live forever, ... > > Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer > an amendment... > > I have some things still running in

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-10 Thread Mike Brown
I've been using cygwin on XP (SP2 and then SP3), both 32 bit and 64 bit, for ages now. I actually tried upgrading once, but had to go back to what I am currently running because cron was broken. It refused to start, no matter what. After returning to the previous install, it started right up.

Windows XP Support

2016-01-10 Thread Herbert Stocker
Hi, i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? Although there are better OSes now, WinXP is still a good OS. Especially for virtual machines,

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-10 Thread Terry McCarty - WA5NTI
Hello - I am also new to the LINUX world and would like very much to see XP "live forever". I still use XP as my main "go to" machine. But ... Microsoft's continuing "march to bigger and better" and my reluctance to be forced to repeatedly buy new bigger and faster machinery to

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-10 Thread Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez
No software version can live forever, specially if it is a security programs (OpenSSL, LibreSSL, GnuPG, ...) or programs and applications that need the first ones, and that includes Operative Systems and Kernel. And that's not a Microsoft thing, Linux as well has it. Linux Kernel LTS support is