Comments on: Goodbye, Windows XP http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/06/30/goodbye-windows-xp/ Miscellaneous ramblings on miscellaneous topics Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2008/06/30/goodbye-windows-xp/comment-page-1/#comment-1688 Ploni Almoni Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:56:53 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=538#comment-1688 <p>I said farewell to Windows 3.x in 1991 or 1992 with Linux 0.95. Though I admit to reinstalling XP for a while on my machine due to needing it for certain applications such as DVDaf (a Talmud study program) and wanting to play a couple of games, and running Windows 98 for a while on a used 486 that had some weird proprietary video hardware that Linux and BSD didn't support at the time, because I wanted to surf the web. I still have a VM image on my Mac to run DVDaf, judging from how well it runs in Darwine, it looks like it does need VMWare or dual booting, and a copy of Windows XP. </p> <p>So I'll be running XP, albeit only in VMWare, for quite some time. Unless someone makes Talmud-study software that good for other platforms. (Yes, I know digitized Gemara is available on Linux! No point-and-click on the daf intermediate-level audio lectures of this quality though!) Definitely niche software, 2% of all Americans at the most would be remotely interested in it, assuming all of them wanted to do this. (Figure for male Jews in US.)</p> <p>This is definitely in the "whatever blows your kippa up" territory of course. ;-)</p> I said farewell to Windows 3.x in 1991 or 1992 with Linux 0.95. Though I admit to reinstalling XP for a while on my machine due to needing it for certain applications such as DVDaf (a Talmud study program) and wanting to play a couple of games, and running Windows 98 for a while on a used 486 that had some weird proprietary video hardware that Linux and BSD didn’t support at the time, because I wanted to surf the web. I still have a VM image on my Mac to run DVDaf, judging from how well it runs in Darwine, it looks like it does need VMWare or dual booting, and a copy of Windows XP.

So I’ll be running XP, albeit only in VMWare, for quite some time. Unless someone makes Talmud-study software that good for other platforms. (Yes, I know digitized Gemara is available on Linux! No point-and-click on the daf intermediate-level audio lectures of this quality though!) Definitely niche software, 2% of all Americans at the most would be remotely interested in it, assuming all of them wanted to do this. (Figure for male Jews in US.)

This is definitely in the “whatever blows your kippa up” territory of course. ;-)

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