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Microsoft is officially dropping support of its windows 98 operating system.

Rest in Peace, win98!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/13/...ain588381.shtml (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/13/tech/main588381.shtml)

Now that Gen .99d is out, I can take the time to transition my stuff over to Win2K (finally).  Fear not, Windows 98 will still be alive and well on my backup system for some time to come!

I won't miss it.  Not as much as I miss "BOB".

I haven't used 98 for years and don't miss it one bit. I have far less problems with 2000.

I love 2000. It works wonders. I'm going to try 2003 as soon as I get a copy though. ;)

Windows 98 wasn't that bad, it required the 6 month reformat but every PC still requires that. Linux still reigns supreme, I wish there were more source ports for the OS though, its sort of gameless

Remember the failed attempt that was Windows ME?

I never tried it but i heard many complaints, why was it so bad?

You could literally do nothing without any crashes or errors. Compadability was a thing of the past then this came into the play, then they ressurected it with newer OS's.

Six month reformat?  I've been using the same Windows 98 install for two years.

Wow, simply wow  :mellow:

98se was good.
me was worthless.
xp is good, driver support at first was hit or miss.
if hardware support and game support were better i'd run linux
mandrake or suse.
so far the only os i can do everything i want to do is xp.
 B)
linux is still #1 in my book for the $$$ :thumb:

I'm not very fond of XP either, hehe. Even after you turn off all of those stupid interface options, it still seems cluttered and newbified *shrugs*

2000 rocks, but I like XP ok.  
As soon as I get the time to install my new HDD, I'm gonna try a dual boot with XP and Red Hat.  I had run RH8 for a short time on my spare, but it just ran horrible - used a Celeron 400 and it was so laggy it was worthless.  I don't know what the deal was, probably too slow to run it.
Where's the love for Bob?

Hey I've been using 98 on this computer, format free, for...um...2 and a half years I think.  Won't say it hasn't had problems but they were fixed and the comp works decent.  Would like a new one (faster, prettier) but this will hold me until I graduate.

/sends con a 2003 CD with crack  B)

I always knew you were a waerzmonkey, GK - you always protested the practice too much to be real.

That means they'll never ever release another security patch unless half the Windows 98 machines on the face of the earth are hacked through the security hole in question. :P

A lot of games that have released source codes have good Linux ports. FreeSpace 2 has a Linux port and Doom has at least two of them.

It has something like 20 ports, Doom I mean. Id is one of the few companies that has been generous enough to release their source code after the game or at least provide some level of linux binaries. Most others aren't all that nice, there's always wine but that's hit and miss, companies just don't see any benefit in releasing source codes even if the game has been dead for years. That's what hurts linux in the end

Linux does have a few good freeware games, VegaStrike most notably for the simulation crowd or RPG crowd.

Still worth the 10 gig partition ^_^