![]() ![]() You have a fundamental misunderstanding (or a deliberate misrepresentation – I’m not sure which) of the situation here. OTOH for Linux, I have upgraded versions countless times for no charge. It cost money to upgrade from one Windows version to the next. Go grab an early Redhat executable and run it on a recent kernel. Many old Dos executables can still run under XP (granted, many don’t). How well supported is a 1997/98 version of RedHat, SUSE, or whatever? Microsoft has two things that impress me – long support for a product for free, and binaries from ages ago still run on a recent version of Windows. “WOW! That is about 9 years of free upgrades. I update my GCC on live systems and never had a problem, I even update glibc live.īinary compatibility is only a matter of keeping some old core libraries. If you knew what you were doing, you could bypass these limitations without problem. The versions you are talking about are imposed to you by your package manager because it is responsible for keeping the system stable for you, and can’t know everyone’s install, so it has to streamline everything. Every time a new version of GCC comes out we go through this cycle againĪctually, no, you don’t. I’m tired of having to have exact version of libraries, kernels, modules, etc. Only money talks, or everything is deprecated (VB6, old multimedia libs, MS Office viewers, …).Īnd I really would like to see binary compatability given a little more attention in the Linux world. I just want to give credit to Microsoft for carrying customers a little longer than they need to I can assure you it’s the same in the Windows world. You really think the endless update cycle is specific to the Linux world ? I think that I finally have tired of the endless update cycle in the Linux world I don’t !! Are you mad ? You want an old distro when the newer ones provide better tools ? What’s wrong with you ? I would like to see support like this for my Linux distros I find YOU are amazing, but not in a good way ! ![]() Picture that : you are forced to use an old OS everyone think is sh*t (crash prone, security nightmare, full of bugs), even Windows users.Īnd yet you are amazed. This is the benefit of having a big company, and of having a monopoly. I’m still just amazed that ANY support, paid or not is available for such an old OS I didn’t notice they weren’t releasing any new ones. ![]() I installed 98 not to long ago (for old games) and I was able to download a bunch of updates. All this and of course other aspects makes me think that most of people are not able for consecutive logical thinking, they are deeply dependent trade tricks and advertising compaigns… THe difference between Apple and MS is that Apple is praised for everything it is doing, MS is shamed for everything is done. People must understand that never mind bugs are identified or are not they are bugs. The fact that MS patches products shows that they work hard to improve their product, if somebody does not like this nobody convinces him to update Windows, it is personal problem of each one, but it is wonderful that for a short time Apple released 6 big updates for their fanfared Tiger in additional regular patches, but nobody even think to blame them. And if some serious issue exists, sysadmin may tighten security, change some setting to prevent the security bug exploit, so good sysadmin is not so unequivocally dependent on the OS patching. Of particular importance, not to break compatibilities too.Īnother minor issue: sysadmin cannot update every time the a huge numbers of workstation, system administration requires scheduling, so patch release date is very good for business computing. It is especially important for business users. MS should provide patch able not only solve a specific problem, but also this patch should not break applications, specific configurations. Windows is very sofisticated OS and it runs on the majority home and business workstations with millions of different settings and configurations. Patch quality and compatibility test is one of them. There are several issues affecting immediate patch release. ![]()
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