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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux? Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 05:07:45 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <9s645j1pehkhdkc7kjj3hbp2nnu93c4mfc@4ax.com> <66523fb2$0$1258345$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 07:07:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e277b9cb7c286d186849e5f08f72231a"; logging-data="2210885"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rK212+0gEEGsmvUNWSYYD" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U+GM3Il5PExa6E7T7hTFpSj5eOw= Bytes: 3522 On 2024-05-30, rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2024 12:02:56 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote: > >> On 2024-05-29, rbowman wrote: >>> On Wed, 29 May 2024 15:31:56 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote: >>> >>>> I used Windows 2000. It's inferior to Cinnamon, or Mate or Xfce in my >>>> opinion. (Of course these desktops have the advantage of running on >>>> top of Linux.) But I can't quite understand why you run down Linux UIs >>>> that look like the Windows' UI — what is it about Windows 2000's UI >>>> that you think is somehow unique compared to other Windows desktops? >>> >>> Well 2000 was better than NT 4.0, the king of BSOD. >> >> My younger brother, who's been a Windows' programmer for a long time >> now, >> hated to see Windows 2000 go away. I don't know anything about NT, never >> used it. I guess I was using XP at that time. > > Originally there was going to be a NT 5.0 in 1998 but when the release was > pushed to Dec 1999 they decided Windows 2000 sounded cool, particularly > with the Y2K bug. > > XP was built on the NT 5.1 kernel. We're now up to NT 10.0. MS jumped > from 6.3 to 10.0. Sometimes I think they like to confuse people :) SQL > Server is the same but at least they didn't skip numbers. SQL Server 2022 > identifies as 16.x. > > It's interesting Windows 10, Windows 11, and the related server editions > all are the NT 10.0 kernel. I've basically lost track of Windows and its current releases. For example, I had no idea the NT kernel was still around or at 10.0. I guess the old Windows 95, 98, XP line ended with Me. (Another OS release Microsoft would probably like to forget.) -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine