Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-30 Thread Mike DePaulo
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen > Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200 > --- > > > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread KHMan
On 8/30/2015 9:53 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Bryan Berns! On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! 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 se

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >>> 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:57:06AM -0400, Bryan Berns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > >> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >>> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > >>> > > on the w

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
AC sent the following at Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:57 PM >On 2015-08-26 18:04, Andrey Repin wrote: Well rsync is fine for making >>> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >>> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >>> just want t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> That doesn't solve the hotkeys bound at driver levels, unfortunately. >> >> Half of my keyboard dead now thanks to the move to Win7. >> >> > I don't understand this one. Quick explanation, please, even if it's OT? >> >> I was using Win+Arrows to switch between

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, AC wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:30:27 -0700 From: AC Subject: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Stephen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> 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 c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 02:42, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> > >> > On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > >> >> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 > >> >> > > is > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, AC! >>> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >>> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >>> just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. >> >> man rsync >> >> > Well rsync is fine for making mirro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread AC
On 2015-08-26 18:04, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, AC! > >> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >> just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. > > man rsync > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, AC! > Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a > mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I > just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. You'll also need to specify your mirror address in the command line

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, AC! > Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a > mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I > just want to make sure I can reinstall Cygwin packages if needed. man rsync -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, August 27

Re: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread AC
On 2015-08-26 06:56, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! >> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. >> >>> Yo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> > 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, wh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 15:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > 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 > >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Frank Fesevur
2015-08-26 15:42 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin: > And since Vista+ doesn't have support for 16-bit subsystem, I need XP VM to > compile my projects. AFAIK the 16-bit subsystem has nothing to do with XP vs Vista+. It has to do with 32-bit OS vs 64-bit OS. Have you tried a 32 bit Win7 (or maybe even a 32-b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 26 August 2015 at 07:42, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! > >>> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final >>> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. > >> You will need more than mirrors. You will need to set up a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stephen John Smoogen! >> Anyway, on the topic: All I could ask is to give us a notice when the final >> build for XP is available, so that we could prepare own mirrors. > You will need more than mirrors. You will need to set up a parallel > stack of builders and other tools because th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 26 August 2015 at 06:23, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> 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 coerce

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Mike DePaulo
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen > > > > Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway > > > since1991 ;) > > > > Heh. > > But thanks cygwin it's a place where I can live :-) At Flock (Fedora Contributor Conference), I met peop

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > 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) serv

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen > > Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway > > since1991 ;) > > Heh. But thanks cygwin it's a place where I can live :-) -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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 > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
> Good luck finding all the Microsoft spyware. From what I can tell, Win 10 > defaults to reporting almost everything to the company for their spam > servers to use. >From my first inspection the remote-adress is something with akamai (may differ in other regions). I did shut them all down with

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread briansw
> I hope I can customize it [Win 10] to behave like XP (only the goodies of course). And shutdown/disable all the spying internet-connections. Good luck finding all the Microsoft spyware. From what I can tell, Win 10 defaults to reporting almost everything to the company for their spam servers to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
> > 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

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread wilson
> > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for > > XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. > He - I'm still on XP! So am I. Windows 7 doesn't have some features I rely on and Windows 8.X was a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Corinna Vinschen Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:32:14 +0200 --- > Now that Windows 2003 is finally out of long term support, and given > that XP's much-too-long-term support ended 2014, I'll drop support for > XP and Server 2003 from Cygwin End of 2015. He -