Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:35:04 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Drop Win9x support? (was: Serious performance problems) Message-ID: <20050607143504.GJ16960@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <42A54258 DOT 2010901 AT iopan DOT gda DOT pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42A54258.2010901@iopan.gda.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:44:40AM +0200, Jacek Piskozub wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I guess eventually all of those old Win9x systems will have to stop >>working and people will have to buy new XP systems. Who knows when >>that will happen, though? > >Correction. Some of us will migrate directly to Linux. I personally >use WindowsME for the win32 programs I cannot (yet) run with wine and >Linux for the rest of the stuff. I plane no upgrade to Windows XP >(Longhorn or whatever comes next from the Dark Lords)... But, regardless of where you go, you are one less 9x user. The scenario of someone migrating to Linux or OS/X or FreeBSD doesn't really matter as far as this is concerned. I don't think we need to enumerate all of the different options possible when moving from 9x. As long as there are people who want to use Cygwin, we'll be maintaining it... ...unless we get bored or something. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/