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Re: Vista Needs Development

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:51:50 +0100, Peter KÃhlmann wrote:

> DFS wrote:
> 
>> nrballardco@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> DFS wrote:
>>>> Linonut wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> Can it really be this bad?
>>>>
>>>> It's never as bad as a cola Linux "advocate" says it is.  Never.
>>>
>>> Based on what?  Your say-so?  Roy S. has recent news articles to
>>> support his claim against Vista.  What do you have?
>> 
>> Based on the thousands of lying posts they've submitted to cola.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> Rex Ballard, Roy S., Peter Kohlmann, Jim, Gidget, et al, are huge
>>>> liars. Not supported doesn't mean the product won't install and run
>>>> - it may or may not.  Not supported means no official support from
>>>> MS.
>>>
>>> And the fact that MS doesn't "officially support" its own products on
>>> its own OS says a lot...
>> 
>> You mean some of its own products on some of its own OS's.  What are you
>> expecting?  Perpetual support of all products on all OS's?  It's a
>> software business - not an open source software charity.
>> 
>> XP is over 5 years old - yet Suse ended support of 8.0 Home in June 2004,
>> just two years after introducing it.  I doubt you can find any Linux
>> organizations offering official support for 5 years.
> 
> So you have never looked at a Redhat or Novell site


I just did....

Looks like Suse is ending support for 9.2...

Two years after it was released.....

Sad....

That was one of the last versions that actually worked, unlike 10.1.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3645456

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