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:ONLamp: Microsoft Should Release Windows 98 SE as Open Source
ONLamp: Microsoft Should Release Windows 98 SE as Open Source
Oct 9, 2004, 07 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (7719 reads)

(Other stories by Todd Ogasawara)

"I had an interesting situation the other day. My old 300MHz Celeron based IBM ThinkPad 240 notebook (a great little 2.2 lbs. sub-notebook) spends most of its time just lying around. I have newer notebooks in the home and office. But, none of them are in the size/weight class of the old ThinkPad. So, I still carry it for personal trips just to offload digital photos on the hard disk. The problem was I split it into 2GB and 4GB partitions and the 2GB partition for Windows had gotten full. So, I reformated it as a single 6GB partition. I gave some thought to installing Ubuntu Linux or some other interesting Linux distro but the 240 can't boot from a USB CD-ROM drive. I could have carved a small DOS partition to load a distro into and then boot from a Linux boot floppy..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Simple reason is there are lots of old c ...   they wouldn't dare   
wildpossum
Oct 9, 2004, 08:57:38
 
I've said this before, and I'm s ...   Said this before - I'm still waiting, Microsof   
Wesley Parish
Oct 9, 2004, 10:19:56
 
Having had to use 95 and 98SE just this  ...   NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!   
Micah
Oct 9, 2004, 16:53:46
 
Loss of revenue.  IP lawsuits.Such an of ...   Why they won't...   
GreyGeek
Oct 9, 2004, 20:38:00
 
 They sunset support for Windows 98 SE.  ...   Give me a break!   
Eric Laffoon
Oct 9, 2004, 21:42:55
 
Microsoft will never release the OS or O ...   Dream On Elvis Impersonators   
DZNutzNurMouth
Oct 10, 2004, 21:47:02
 
finally got wine working at work.now wit ...   goodby   
stew
Oct 11, 2004, 02:22:10
 
hell why not those who know how to tear  ...   W98SE Open Source   
Brandon Reed
Oct 21, 2004, 19:45:09
 
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