<div class="gmail_extra">Linux Mint 9 is supported until April 2013.<br><br>It can run on anything.<br><br>Like it's name. It sure can DANCE!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Christopher Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:57 PM, charles chris <<a href="mailto:cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">cccharlz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am seeding using Windows NOT Linux.<br>
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> and Linux Mint 9 LXDE is a LTR.<br>
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> If I get great results from Isadora, why try another version?<br>
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> I tried Linux Mint 10 LXDE and gnome desktop but found them really sluggish<br>
> on older PCs.<br>
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> I only update what I need.<br>
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> I refuse to upgrade!<br>
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> Upgrade would only ruin a perfect thing!<br>
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</div>In practice, that seems to be a disastrous result.<br>
<br>
The set of available hardware has the habit of changing over time. I<br>
was just reading a novel that referenced a "FrancoDEC LapVAX", which<br>
represents a quite different fork in the road from where we went; a<br>
world where DEC survived, but France wound up ruling the world. At<br>
the time the book was written, "All the world's a VAX" was one of the<br>
prevailing opinions amongst Unix folk.<br>
<br>
In our world, today, the next computer you get is quite likely to have<br>
a NIC or a video card that Mint 9 won't know about. So it is really<br>
vitally important to be able to see upgrades of important software, as<br>
you might get stuck with a system that will only work on hardware that<br>
you can't buy anymore.<br>
<br>
I get the impression that a lot of the people that want to run<br>
alternative OSes like Plan 9 wind up having to run them in a<br>
virtualization context because they have a preference for hardware<br>
that you can't get anymore.<br>
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