re: Spoofing the User Agent [won't solve the problem]
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 11:32 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
douglas wrote:
|Thanks very much hombre for the ref to KernelEx.
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No sweat...though that was the *second-best* advice in that post.
|We ARE being squeezed out
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The use of the present tense is incorrect.
Maybe you've noticed that there are no more security updates available for 9x
--such as those ever were.
M$ declared Win9x dead OVER THREE YEARS AGO (and gave up on it in 2001).
I'd been looking at alternatives to M$ since the release of XP
--which requires Product Activation, which I won't tolerate.
...and long ago I soured on OSes that install with ZERO **real** security
and which need to have a bunch of 3rd-party junk PASTED ONTO THE OUTSIDE
to make it **appear** to be "secure".
|but I for one sure like my Snappy old 98.
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I can see that you're easily impressed.
Now try to imagine an OS that has up-to-date security updates
and which **runs on your current hardware**
(and which is FAR more secure than anything Micros~1 *EVER* produced).
Actually, you don't need to imagine that; you can view it for yourself.
This will run from the CD (the OS *and all the apps*).
Just burn the *.ISO to a CD and boot to it. It gives a graphical desktop.
cache
of http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page%26printable=yes
(Iceweasel==Firefox with the proprietary artwork & logos stripped out.)
cache
of http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/2009/01/antix-8-test-release-reviewed.html
Here is another view of some of the information I pointed to in the links above.
(Page 3 is especially interesting in showing the completeness of the package.)
cache
of http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2009/07/29/antix-m8-2
Brad Rodriguez has an Obstacle Course for OSes for boxes with ~400MHz CPUs.
antiX finished at the top of the heap (the 2008 version was tested there).
cache
of http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/print.php?news.279
Again: out-of-the-box completeness.
Note here that device drivers for those printers that aren't included on the CD
can be installed just like you can do with Windoze.
Linux Mint has a slightly different definition of "complete out of the box"
which might suit you even better.
Mint's Edition that uses the Xfce desktop is one option
(256MB of RAM recommended with that one.)
The lastest release is version 7 (6 months old); v8 is due out any time now.
Mint Fluxbox Edition may be another way to extend the life of your ancient iron.
cache
of http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Mint-6-Fluxbox-Is-Here-108894.shtml
That's for v6 which can get by with 128MB of RAM;
it is 12 months old (but the kernel and apps are completely updateable).
256MB is recommend for v8 (though that looks overly-cautious and pessimistic);
v8 was just released.
(There was no v7 release of Mint Fluxbox Edition.)
When Ubuntu 10.04 is released in late April,
I'm expecting several new Linux distributions/spins based on LXDE
(Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) to be formally released--notably Lubuntu.
A release candidate (RC) of Lubuntu is available now
as is a pre-release version of wattOS which uses LXDE.
Knoppix, which has achieve Legendary status,
has used LXDE for its last 2 ~yearly releases.
The ALTERNATIVES to using an OBSOLETE OS on your old hardware are numerous.
(All of these boot-to-a-desktop CDs are also useful when Windoze self-destructs.)
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