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| Thread ID: 135467 | 2013-11-06 01:44:00 | Still a lot of people and businesses slow to see the value in moving up from XP.. | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1359020 | 2013-11-10 20:34:00 | Your best bet for an open source Windows XP is ReactOS (http://reactos.org). Wow, still in Alfa stage, its been like that for years. I guess thats one of the issues with some more complex open source, its a part time, hobby driven operation. It may never be finished, will end up abandoned ? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1359021 | 2013-11-10 23:34:00 | Wow, still in Alfa stage, its been like that for years. I guess thats one of the issues with some more complex open source, its a part time, hobby driven operation. It may never be finished, will end up abandoned ? That's definitely true of the "niche" distro's and lots of smaller projects (mostly stuff aimed at "home" users or "pet projects"). Stuff that is useful/popular (to enterprises or users who can contribute) tends to gather support and even if abandoned by the original creators, can be picked up or forked or incorporated in other projects by anyone interested at any time. The same can certainly not be done with proprietary code that is abandoned when it becomes unprofitable or the company behind it goes tits-up (or is "obsoleted" in favour of the 'new' version for more dollars now please...). A lot of the large open-source projects have an order of magnitude more resources than a single corporate could put in to a 'product', with the added bonus that the end goal is good software, rather than maximising profit. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1359022 | 2013-11-11 00:10:00 | the ideal use for most XP machines and anything running something earlier is an installation of puppy linux and a donation to those in need. any app that actually requires XP/9x can just be run in a virtual machine. other than games but at that point the user wants it enough to do something about it. i've not run an antivirus software in many years; uninstalling antivirus is like a free upgrade if the user can be trained not to be stupid online. an adblocker helps far more. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1359023 | 2013-11-11 00:48:00 | the ideal use for most XP machines and anything running something earlier is an installation of puppy linux and a donation to those in need. any app that actually requires XP/9x can just be run in a virtual machine. other than games but at that point the user wants it enough to do something about it. i've not run an antivirus software in many years; uninstalling antivirus is like a free upgrade if the user can be trained not to be stupid online. an adblocker helps far more. Old systems may be all good at being functional but they will always be old and when you want to interact with newer software, hardware or newer sites that don't cater for legacy systems users will start running out of luck if they haven't already. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1359024 | 2013-11-11 01:51:00 | as long as is has 192MB of ram puppy can run an HTML5 browser | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1359025 | 2013-11-11 01:56:00 | I'm sure puppy linux can, but it's not much use to all those people who struggle with the thought of moving from XP to Windows 7 or 8 or iPad/Android, let alone a system they have never heard of or seen and which none of their friends are using. | Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1359026 | 2013-11-11 04:23:00 | I'm sure puppy linux can, but it's not much use to all those people who struggle with the thought of moving from XP to Windows 7 or 8 or iPad/Android, let alone a system they have never heard of or seen and which none of their friends are using. if the thought of change hinders them that much, chances are they are still using IE6 if they are using anything else they will adjust fine.z it even makes a cute woof when it turns on. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
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