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Subject: Depending on Obsolete, Unsupported OSs
From: rbowman
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:52 UTC

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From: bowman@montana.com (rbowman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Depending on Obsolete, Unsupported OSs
Date: 22 Jul 2024 17:52:54 GMT
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

"Nearly every flight in the U.S. is grounded right now following a
CrowdStrike system update error that’s affecting everything from travel to
mobile ordering at Starbucks — but not Southwest Airlines flights.
Southwest is still flying high, unaffected by the outage that’s plaguing
the world today, and that’s apparently because it’s using Windows 3.1."

"Some are attributing that to Windows 3.1. Major portions of Southwest’s
systems are reportedly built on Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, which is
something the company has come under fire for in the past several years.
It should go without saying that Southwest needs to update its system, but
in this case, the ancient operating system seems to be doing the airline
some favors to avoid a complete Y2K-level apocalypse."

Subject: Re: Depending on Obsolete, Unsupported OSs
From: candycanearter07
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:10 UTC
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Subject: Re: Depending on Obsolete, Unsupported OSs
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 17:52 this Monday (GMT):
> https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/
>
> "Nearly every flight in the U.S. is grounded right now following a
> CrowdStrike system update error that’s affecting everything from travel to
> mobile ordering at Starbucks — but not Southwest Airlines flights.
> Southwest is still flying high, unaffected by the outage that’s plaguing
> the world today, and that’s apparently because it’s using Windows 3.1."
>
> "Some are attributing that to Windows 3.1. Major portions of Southwest’s
> systems are reportedly built on Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, which is
> something the company has come under fire for in the past several years.
> It should go without saying that Southwest needs to update its system, but
> in this case, the ancient operating system seems to be doing the airline
> some favors to avoid a complete Y2K-level apocalypse."

As someone who had to fly the day after the system crashes, I got pretty
lucky.
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

Subject	Author
Depending on Obsolete, Unsupported OSs	rbowman
Re: Depending on Obsolete, Unsupported OSs	candycanearter07