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Paul Weaver wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > >> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 15:16, Tom Potts wrote: >> >>> DON'T BUY WINXP!!! Just cos its not supported doesn't mean it'll stop >>> working! >>> >> Sorry, but what amazingly bad advice. >> >> Sure, you don't have buy Windows XP, but that doesn't mean you need to >> continue using a buggy, security hole ridden OS. >> > That what Tom said, don't buy XP :) > > Remember, most machines running Windows 98 aren't powerful enough to run 2K or XP. > It's a choice between > 1) Buy a new machine (which will have XP) > 2) Upgrade to a cut-down version of Linxu (which they'll have major > problems understanding. It will be running something like blackbox, > firefox might be too bloated etc) > 3) Stay as it is > > 95% of people will choose option 3, the other 5% will choose option 1 > (they probably will have done so anyway I always found IceWM to be a nice, lightweight graphical environment that ex-Windows users sh/would be happy to use given about 0.5h. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html