[Gllug] Win 98 - Better than RedHat?

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:20:10PM +0000, Gordon Joly wrote:
> 
> Windows 98 wins support lifeline
> 
> Windows 98: A favourite with man Microsoft has granted its venerable Windows 98 software a reprieve.
> 
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3392559.stm>
> Last Updated: Tuesday, 13 January, 2004, 12:31 GMT
> 
> RedHat is dropping support, Microsoft decide to continue in response??!?!

Let's get the obvious arguments out of the way first:

(1) Windows 98 "support" is going to very minimal.

(2) You don't have the source to Windows 98 so you can't possibly do
    it yourself / pay someone else to do it for you.  In contrast you
    can happily support Red Hat 6.2 yourself.

(3) The Linux upgrades are free anyway, in stark contrast to the
    enormous expense of WinXP.

Rich.

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