On 10/07/2009, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately the OS has to go. I'm still on Win2K, it's reliable, and > blazingly fast on the hardware I have. Unfortunately no one seems to be > willing to supports it. HP supported Win 98 until just a couple of years > ago, they dropped Win2k within just a few months after that. All the > software I'm going to need wants XP or better. I'm actually thinking of > building/configuring two new machines, an XP machine with twice the speed > and twice current memory of the one I'm currently using and a headless Linux > box to act as a file server, (that can be a bit slower than what I'm using > now and still have superior throughput). I can still do most of my personal > software development work on my current machine, it might be better to that > way.
Sad isn't it, like yourself I have found W2K to have been very stable, fast and reliable but the diminishing software and hardware support make it increasingly unusable. Though it's true general support has been suspended security updates are still forthcoming. I still have to maintain many clients W2k systems and none have fallen prone to security breaches due to all the other protections that I have in place. Just looking into my W2k server log I have logged in (via roaming profile) 17438 times as of today and the installation date is recorded as 10/05/2004, not bad. My workstation is still W2k (but I have a new XP box about to replace it which I down-graded the OS from pre-installed Vista) and it's installation date was 21/04/2004. I'll stay away from Vista or derivatives as long as I can, the ones I support have been a nigh mare compared to the W2k and XP boxes. My server will inherit my W/S motherboard shortly. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC +10 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
