X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; q=dns; s=default; b=jz5ZbEV8UeZW171Bm/I6pjclCUhX X/AxMYHg/IqoJyhGv3He4MtXt/KptE//8OSH990Y3x98dnK0XwIhk70p5C4sixZK 1kPPkbpVx2o6Tw129XJNdxOVhKNlihQW1fVecBtvQb1W0R3sepmc7ZutbbSeqKo3 QjMZx1LymHGUrVs= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=default; bh=ogyXyGmGCPzJqpnLkwrHqnmZcs8=; b=yN hrR2bfMPaBJoeH6C3tEwerC0XpVgaujdRUm5iSML/HBuBNksSrNjd3VSMrD+S5ic zlO1oTJFoxc5PS/z+DeDR2sw4OVDUhNFzU2nXMi2y3Q0kK/p8uzK1boLSZ9xiYDb 31LlhiNA/c3rJEQ8D+DUeSYYcjwSQdI1NB8ThmA5s= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=351, H*MI:sk:56924AB, we, Hx-languages-length:665 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Windows XP Support From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <56924AB1.1070903@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:44:48 -0700 Message-Id: References: <56924AB1 DOT 1070903 AT gmx DOT de> To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u0BGj9mp027335 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 incorrect time zone support in parts of the world that have changed their time zone rules since the discontinuation of support. > Especially for virtual machines, because of its low memory foot print. No argument, but memory and disk usage can’t be the primary concern. If that’s all we’re concerned with, we’d still be running Windows NT 3.51. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple