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Article #623142Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:35
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 05:35
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On Tue, 2018-04-24, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:40:30 -0700 > Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > >> > Whereas my old PC (about five years old now) works fine and has >> > fully up to date software (OS and applications) that also works fine and >> > does the right thing with 30 year old data files (my oldest) as well as >> > ones from today. I've had a consistent UI of my choice for over twenty >> > years now. >> >> Obviously not windows, then. > > Nope FreeBSD, but I could do the same with OpenBSD, NetBSD, > DragonFlyBSD and any number of Linux distributions (probably with somewhat > more effort than any of the BSDs). About the same effort, I think. You just don't install the packages which do untraditional things (the various desktops, "NetworkManager" and so on). /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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