[Gloucs] As if I needed more reasons not to use Windows....

[Guy Edwards]

On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 22:47, Iain Calder wrote:
> Paul Broadhead wrote:
> 
> >Hi folks, here's a story for you.
> >
> <snip good story>
> 
> Much as I hate to even remotely support Microsoft, I think Paul's tale 
> raises some interesting issues.
> 
> It's worth pointing out that Windows 95 and 98 are very old now, I guess 
> equivalent to the Redhat 4/5 era?  I wonder whether a Redhat 4/5 install 
> would work on a modern system, with say a new Athlon chipset or P4, USB, 
> etc., and in fact there would be no point trying to install such an old 
> Linux distro as it would be extremely insecure and updates are not 
> available unless you roll them yourself.

[snip]

Having to pay for the Microsoft patch to fix the problem doesn't 
sound right though, that was the bit that surprised me.

<minor> wasn't windows 98 about redhat 6.2 time? </minor>

Guy