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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:08:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <v0mds4$18fm6$5@dont-email.me> References: <v08hn9$1m69n$2@dont-email.me> <v0cq6r$2ra8g$1@dont-email.me> <v0dnl4$31ilq$2@dont-email.me> <l8vei1Fvi7U1@mid.individual.net> <v0e18t$33leg$1@dont-email.me> <8734r83vea.fsf@yaxley.in> <slrnv2nrae.ddm1.SimonJ@silex.localdomain> <v0hjtq$be9$4@dont-email.me> <l93b2gFiol2U1@mid.individual.net> <slrnv2pdd2.i9mb.SimonJ@silex.localdomain> <v0k7lv$lv6k$2@dont-email.me> <662e8d26$0$2567$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <l97ijaF7g05U1@mid.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:08:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="204de98df41bd5ef7b37f05a187c8914"; logging-data="1326790"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/XTiesUwoJiy5tGOFIlA+Q" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7eCO9sh5L6CteS29T8Ez1GGomMw= Bytes: 2613 On 28 Apr 2024 18:24:43 GMT, rbowman wrote: > On 28 Apr 2024 17:53:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > >> It was the day eeePC came along, the new version of Windows couldn't >> run on it, only the old unavailable version could. But the last version >> of Ubuntu was running very well. And the eeePC with Ubuntu sold very >> well and seeing that Microsoft extended the old version of Windows. >> That way, people could buy eeePC with Windows on it. > > The Eee PC 4G Surf was first released with Xandros. > > ... I can't imagine XP on that hardware. I have an original-model Eee 701 with Xandros on it, still here in this office. I was able to put Kubuntu on an SD card and boot off that, without disturbing the Xandros install. Kind of fun to see KDE 4 with all those 3D effects running at fully-interactive speeds, when newly-released Vista could manage its “Aero Glass” equivalent only on higher-end, much more expensive hardware. Microsoft revived XP specifically to fight back against the Linux netbooks. Whereas my Eee booted off an SSD, I think they had to have hard drives for the Windows versions. Because Windows couldn’t run without a swap file, and continual writing to the swap file would shorten the life of an SSD.