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Re: Windows XP Support


No software version can live forever, specially if it is a security
programs (OpenSSL, LibreSSL, GnuPG, ...) or programs and applications
that need the first ones, and that includes Operative Systems and Kernel.

And that's not a Microsoft thing, Linux as well has it.

Linux Kernel LTS support is 2-3 years, for Debian is 1 year after
release of next stable version, Ubuntu is 5 years and 9 months for STS
and both LinuxMint and Trisquel 5 years as well.

At least Windows XP got 13 years of support and since Windows Vista its
10 years.

On 2016-01-10 at 23:32, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I am also new to the LINUX world and would like very much to see XP
> "live forever".
> 
> I still use XP as my main "go to" machine.
> But ... Microsoft's continuing "march to bigger and better" and my
> reluctance to be forced to repeatedly buy new bigger and faster
> machinery to accommodate the new windows systems has nudged me out of my
> complacency - I am now using Cygwin and learning LINUX.
> 
> If Cygwin continues to support XP, it will continue to serve as "that
> bright city on a hill", giving us old Microsoft Ludditess a comfortable
> "stepping stone" that encourages us to switch to LINUX.
> 

-- 
Juan Miguel Navarro MartÃnez

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