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 Martínez GPG Keyfingerprint: 5A91 90D4 CF27 9D52 D62A BC58 88E2 947F 9BC6 B3CF -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
