I cannot believe I am gonna do that. Pheeewww… Let’s go
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Thanks for your standard pitch about Microsoft products. I cannot say that is one of the harshest or one of the most inaccurate, but let’s try to get a gist about the status of OSes in the dying market of computers.
Linux for desktops even after years is a no go. More standards appear, more packages, more “ways to do the same thing”, some better, some worse, some tailored exclusively for the needs of the lead developer of the project. Some companies propose some specific distro for enterprises, which are (due to the support contract requirements for staring the project) quite OSas. The one that Microsoft is trying to pitch sooner than later with virtual PCs on the cloud named Microsoft 365.
Mac OS XI (poetry license) is quite picky, by license, where to run. If you don’t rent a kidney to someone else, Apple devices (AKA e-Waste after opening the box: no upgrade/update, costrained repair, serialization of the spare parts: you bought it, but it’s not yours) not base models are pricey to say the least, and kept the pitch price higher and higher since 2013. Now with proprietary hardware it even cannot run x86 code (unless you pay for the privilege, AKA Parallels) on top of the hole in your pocket after buying an ARM-based Mac. After several year of “nonsense” lineup, some new and less stupid things are present on latest Macbooks, but again. You buy a thing with a timer, not that short, t when (not if) Apple will elapse it and cut the rope, you can trash your thing. I forgot. the OS. So. I consider Mail and Safari quite a joke. And not a funny one, because even Outlook can act better and more standard-compliant than the “supposed email client” delivered by Apple. Which currently deliver also a year-update of the OS, which needs at least x.3 version for being less bleeding edge when touched. The only thing that makes really interesting Apple now is… Computer-grade ARM SoCs.
Redmond is a saint? Not at all. But Windows it’s still far more diffused, available, and flexible than the mopolistic approach of Cupertino. And still can relate a 2015 OS (WIndows 10) with a 2001 OS if necessary (Windows XP). Using a stupid but real approach: it’s here, and it wont’ go away. Some companies don’t even start to consider moving away from windows clients, because… no other workers will consider to learn a new OS.
So.
Nethbot declared Samba 4.16.5 november 2022, but only on NSDC. According to Samba site, 4.16 is security fixes only EOL september 2023.
4.18 is current stable, with maintenance and and september 2023, security fixes until march 2024 and discontinued in september 2024.
Could be the final release for Neth7, giving breath and less issues with a role considered key (at least, several times) for the developers of the project.
You don’t give a damn about WIndows, @Andy_Wismer ? It’s fine. Anyway, your size don’t fit for all the other people…