It should be: it launched with Windows Vista in early 2009 – about nine months before Windows 7 finished gestating. This sluggish old machine, with a hyperthreaded Atom, a spinning PATA hard disk, and 2GB of RAM, is quite a good spec by Windows XP standards. TinyXP is a lot quicker than Thin PC, which is barely cut down at all from standard Windows 7. The result was both impressive and disappointing. It also has most of the available updates for this long-obsolete OS, and an assortment of drivers to make it easier to get working, both integrated. TinyXP is a third-party distribution of Windows, which omits a lot of bloat from what was already not Microsoft's leanest version. As an experiment, we nuked the sluggish Windows 7-based OS, and replaced it with TinyXP. It used to dual-boot Windows Thin PC, which is Microsoft's allegedly cut-down edition of Windows 7 for thin clients, and Raspberry Pi Desktop, which is just about the lowest-hassle lightweight Linux for elderly 32-bit hardware. One of them is a Sony Vaio P, a sub-netbook with a unique form factor, which is why we keep it around. Regular readers might recognize some of the machines in the FOSS Desk Testing Fleet by now.
To voluntarily go back to XP today, on real physical hardware, was not a task that the writer was anticipating with any great enthusiasm, and therefore it has been a big surprise to find that it ended up being rewarding and even fun. Just to put our position into perspective here, back in 2002, it was Windows XP that caused this vulture to switch away from running Windows, and to a mixture of Linux on x86 kit and Mac OS X on several geriatric PowerMacs. The results were… not what we expected.ĭid you ever do something that you'd been putting off for ages, and find that in fact it was rather enjoyable? The reactions to our story on XP activation being cracked showed that quite a lot of readers are keen on running ancient operating systems, and possibly worse still, ancient proprietary operating systems. Warning: the stunts in this article were performed by professionals, so for your safety and the protection of those around you, do not attempt any of the stunts you're about to read unless qualified.Ī recent blog post by Julio Merino, and the accompanying demo videos which went somewhat viral on Twitter, prompted The Reg FOSS desk to look into something that we really had not been wanting to do.
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