On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > > > on the way. > > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users > > towards the software as (an expensive) service model and follows the dictum > > that Microsoft knows more about what you want than you do (default saves to > > microsoft cloud storage, grabs your pictures for background slide show > > without asking, etc.). > > I hope I can customize it to behave like XP (only the goodies of > course).
http://classicshell.net > And shutdown/disable all the spying internet-connections. Mostly anyway: https://fix10.isleaked.com/ > > Their recent "security" patch that put machines in an endless reboot cycle > > shows the company still hasn't focused on quality or customer needs instead > > of corporate profits. Win10 has no new innovations that customers need, few > > if any actual security improvements, and a huge price tag in terms of > > upgrades, expensive services, and retraining. I'll stick with Win XP for a > > while longer then switch to open source products and Linux when I must. In > > the mean time, I guess I will have to say a sad good-bye to Cygwin when they > > leave. I'm sorry to hear that (even if Linux is the perfect replacement), but from a maintainance perspective, XP and 2003 are a real PITA. They are full of bugs on the OS level, some of them (on XP) builtin security exploits. They are especially missing *lots* of functionality added with Vista/2008. I'm not talking about functionality on the user-visible level, those left me cold, too. I'm talking about the underlying Win32 API level. The step from the 5.x to the 6.x kernels was a major improvement, but a good amount of that new stuff is not used in Cygwin because XP. I'm really sorry if that's a problem for you, but I will be very glad to finally get rid of that millstone around Cygwin's neck. > Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway > since1991 ;) Heh. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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