On 07/24/2015 04:16 AM, Henri Beauchamp wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:47:36 -0500, Nicky Perian wrote: > >> Thanks for taking time to provide a thoughtful reply. >> I agree, it is not a viewer for older distributions. > I don't consider 3 years old distributions as "old" ones... If you do, > then What would you say about Windows XP, Vista, or even Windows 7 ? > :-D Windows XP is EOL and anyone using it is asking for serious issues with security problems which won't ever be fixed. If you're running an older platform you should be grateful the vendor is willing to backport and handle security fixes. But when they call it EOL you only have yourself to blame if you continue running it and have issues.
In the Linux space for most distros there is no "vendor" to even backport fixes since it community maintained in many cases. For Ubuntu if you are running an LTS release then yes its supported for a longer period. Which means you'll have the benefit of security fixes. 12.04 is April 2017. Should you upgrade to 14.04 LTS? Probably yes if only to get updates on apps that aren't simply security fixes. You can argue that a viewer should support older releases and to some degree I could agree with that. Truth is though that the hardware requirements of the viewer also change and anyone running on a machine more than a few years old isn't going to have the experience intended with the current software tech. So I personally prefer that releases target .. the actual target. Which IMO is 3-4years max. Hence as I said I think you can argue in the ubuntu case 12.04 but nothing earlier and for Windows I see absolutely zero benefit supporting Windows XP especially if its holding back support for newer releases. Just my 2 cents Mike _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
