8.04 still a fine version

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Wed Apr 7 08:51:20 UTC 2010


On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Christopher Chan wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 07, 2010 09:20 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> On 04/06/2010 07:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 	I am writing this on Thunderbird on my old 8.04 LTS which
>>>> needed updates, that were a new kernel and some fix on
>>>> Thunderbird and like that. It works fine and is a fine system
>>>> to keep working. The others from 8.04 and 10.04 are not as
>>>> interesting and I will let them die.
>>>>
>>> What will you do when security fixes stop coming in, what, a year?
>>>
>>>
>>           Just keep using it. The password and name keeps Linux 1000
>> times more secure than Windows!
>>
>
> Just when I thought he finally found sense...

For someone with as much experience with computers in general and Linux 
in particular as he claims he seems not to grasp quite a few basic 
concepts.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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