On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 19:11 +0000, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100 > Guy Marcenac <g...@posteurs.com> wrote: > > > Le 07/03/2014 02:16, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering > > > moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support. > > > Normally, I'd > > > > > Hello, > > I don't understand why the lack of support leads you to this huge > > change for your buddies on these old machines. > > Support or not they will continue to run, simply MS won't fix any > > bug... Surely, there is something I did not understand about your > > needs. > > No, they will continue to run fine if kept isolated from any > contamination via the Net, USB sticks, emails etc. > > The point is that security holes won't be fixed. That would be of some > concern to Linux users, but it's very serious for Windows users, the > targets of nearly all malware. The marketing hype about 'new operating > systems' is just that, and Windows 8 contains a great deal of 7, of > Vista, of XP and probably earlier versions. I haven't checked 8, but > Win 7 still contains Edlin, an early DOS text *line* editor. > > So every month, the security advisories will come out, 'remote code > execution' flaws will be announced which affect everything from Vista > onwards, but they won't mention XP. The bad guys will be studying this > information carefully, and will gain insight into problems which do > also affect XP but the fixes for which won't be backported... it will > be a bad time to be an Internet-connected XP user, and there will > indeed still be a fair number of them. The AV people won't support XP, > either. > > So I'll be wiping XP off my old laptop (actually refitting the original > 40GB drive, as the 120GB drive which has run for the last eight years > is showing early signs of dementia) and running only Sid on it.
Depending to the needs, it might be useful to install Linux and to run XP in a virtual machine. With VBox it's possible to run a Linux desktop and a XP desktop seamlessly. Take a look at the link: http://picpaste.com/linux-jwm-and-windows-xp.png The above panel is a Linux JWM panel and the below panel is the XP task bar. XP does run as a guest in a Linux VBox. The upper right window is the XP file browser and the left lower window is a Linux ROXTerm. The picpaste link does expire in 7 days. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1394221258.587.21.camel@archlinux
