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Technical Topics => Software => Topic started by: ThaDood on May 20, 2025, 1521 UTC
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck-using-ancient-windows-computers?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Yeah... I know... Not really radio related, or is it? I still have many Icom commercial HT's, and mobile rigs, that still need WIN XP to update FREQ's and modify features. Heck, I still have Motorola MAXTRAC's, and a Radius, that require DOS-based programming. My CHIRP works with WIN 8. And, Zara Radio automation runs on WIN XP. VISTA, runs a 20-year-old 8GB Sansa MP3 unit, that I've used to run on-air, and it won't take MAC and Ubuntu. So, I'm still using older Windows for various radio-related gear. And, I suspect that I'm not the only one.
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I’ve got one of those old Sansa 8GB MP3 players, mine works fine with Windows 11.
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2 x units with AMD 62/32 bits, WINs 7 Ultimate, 2/8 GB RAM. Writing local news site and working like bookseller management.
1 Debian XFCE server; also like destopk «emergency» computer.
Lots of free Open and old abandonware, secure, simple software, that not appears losing funcions over Time, and Im not have intentions of change.
XP Pro SPII in PIII 866 MHz with 384 (3x128) SDRAM, over Gigabyte GA-TUC Socket 370, upgraded HD to 500 GB PATA with big caché (2010), broadcasting my automated local weekend FM station (LPFM with 10 W), time to time in SW (9825 KHz, 32 W), since 2001!
"She" spended a lot of power sources, 2 monitors and obsolete expansion cards (ISA, PCI, AGP and others.)
In fact, actual audio provider are still ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64.
There are lots of posibilities that last one survive me, in working ;D ::) :-X :-\ :'(
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Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 this year and somehow all their threats to Windows 10 users (and previous experience with Windows "upgrades") do not move me to do anything about it.
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We still use windows XP machines for a few of our studio projects here as well with now problems. As a matter of fact we still have all of the disk all the way up to windows 8.
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I run CachyOS (Arch-based Linux) on my primary daily notebook, but I do keep various virtualized OS installs available on the system. Win11 is mostly for Windows software build testing where Wine does not always suffice, but I keep other Windows versions just in case... or perhaps some nostalgia. ReactOS can replace Windows in some roles, though admittedly, that can be a YMMV situation.
(https://i.ibb.co/ZpfSyYZx/Screenshot-20250803-225233.png) (https://ibb.co/jP8z7WpD)
On the HPC side, my primary software build box is a Xeon 96-core 192-thread server with 256GB memory, enterprise-class SSD RAID storage, etc. Ubuntu Server for ease pf compatibility's sake with particular open source software I build.
BTW, I still even have an HP Itanium 2 workstation. It is mostly useless anymore, but there is a version of WinXP for it. I used Debian on it.
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I've re-purposed an old Windows 10 machine and a couple of Apple laptops with Linux Mint (ubuntu based) - I've been very impressed at how far the Linux desktop has come since my early dabbling 10 or so years ago.
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I still use XP not connected to the internet to play music and waterfalls and make QSL’s. I have the partition backed up with bootit bare metal boot manager and have restored it many times before finding I had bad caps in the power supply that I fixed. I have used this computer since 2005 because it just works and sounds great. I run low latency DSP processing on a windows 7 computer because of the low number background processes compared to 10 and 11. I have a few windows 10 and 11 along with Vista computers with older Mac’s running the current OSX version with Opencore.
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Nonsense from a 52 year long career engineer of which 24 years were as a naval aviator, now the author of the USAF System Security Engineering Cyber Guidebook (v5.0 the last version I penned since 2019).
Problem stems from lousy political appointees vice civil servant careerists in leadership roles, too much checklist engineering by these CIO's staffs thinking NIST RMF Controls are requirements, and the fact that as technology moves forward as O/S do, the departments and agencies did no real budget planning as rarely do committees and PEOs listen to their engineers or Users.
Like it our not Windows and Office are the world's predominant software, but the malforms used should have been upgraded a decade ago.
If the US can find the money to fund our enemies as prior to Trump, then we had the money to refresh our AIS/IS systems.
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I still use win 7 to record DGPS and will continue until Gatun and Miraflores go off the air.
Also have a win 10 box for gaming & misc radio programming stuff. Need it to program my BCD436HP and Zachtek WSPR Desktop. It'll be staying on win 10 for a while yet as win 11 is not compelling enough to waste time and money doing that. The win 10 box is nine years old and the 11 upgrade tool claims it's not good enough... but won't tell me why. Why not tell me? Typical m$.
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It's mostly due to the requirement to use Windows Hello, and the TPM chip that records your face and/or fingerprint as an alternative to using a password.
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https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-7-and-vista-just-made-a-shocking-return-in-2026-but-your-pc-might-not-survive-the-comeback Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???? Very interesting. Boomer, FWR that to me, since he to is using older WIN OS's. Am I the only one who actually liked, and used, WIN VISTA, and use it still?
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No Dood you're not the only one, I have all versions of windows starting from windows ME.