8.04 still a fine version

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Apr 7 12:59:17 UTC 2010


Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 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.
> 

I doubt that he has even seen a Spectrum even though he is a geezer. He 
probably does not even know what Pacman or Space Invaders is.




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