Win98 & WinME are dead. Upgrade to Linux?
Microsoft has announced here the end of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1. According to several articles on the Net, like this one from Zdnet, this will boost Desktop Linux. It remains to be seen if consumers will flock to WinXP or will decide to try Linux. For those that have finally had enough of the trojans, malware, virii and security leaks in Microsoft products there are a number of great free Linux distributions like Red Hat’s Fedora Core, Novell’s OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. Try them out and if you need help, just ask in the abundance of mailing lists, forums or your local Linux User Group (LUG).
July 27th, 2006 at 3:19
[...] Obivously, I’m not the only one who’s given thought to this, with a write-up over at ZDNet talking about the very idea. Thankfully, it’s not all bad, with Micahel C. Barnes at DesktopLinux.org producing a nice tutorial-style write up concerning Windows 98 users upgrade path to SimplyMEPIS. Of course, our thoughts are shared by bloggers around the ‘net. [...]