On 2016-02-17 11:58 AM, Stef wrote:
/less wrote:

Try the live cd, it's fun!
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.reactos.org/

Been following its development for some years now just out of
curiousity. If it ever reaches "final release" status, will it run my
old Windows 2000 or XP apps? Didn't think so. That's much of the
reason that many don't upgrade to newer Windows: the excessive cost of
to replace all that perfectly good, working, still useful software.

As well as the hardware from that era which probably won't work with
subsequent releases. If Windows 2000 and XP are good enough for you and
you don't mind that they're basically full of holes as a result of a
lack of continued Microsoft support, there's nothing wrong with that.
Hell, George R. R. Martin uses WordStar on an old 286 running MS-DOS.


--
Slimer
OpenMedia & EFF Member / Conservative Party of Canada, IFAW, PETA &
Mozilla Supporter

After several serious attempts at using Linux, I can honestly say that
the word is synonymous with garbage.