Windows XP is 13 years old now, and despite it is no longer being supported by Microsoft it is still used worldwide. While Minecraft itself still supports Windows XP, Java itself will stop supporting XP with the Java 8 release. Shoghi Cervantes, the main developer for the PocketMine server software for Minecraft PE, announced this on his personal Twitter account:
PocketMine 1.4 is the next major update to PocketMine that will officially support PE 0.9.x as well as a new API. It also notes the drop for Windows Server 2003, which is the buisness/server equivalent of XP. See the source link for the original tweet.
Source: Twitter
PocketMine-MP 1.4 will use PHP 5.6 on all operating systems. That means that it won't work on Windows XP / 2003 anymore. If you are affected by it... You should consider using Linux or, only if you really want it... upgrade Windows. I recommend the first option.
PocketMine 1.4 is the next major update to PocketMine that will officially support PE 0.9.x as well as a new API. It also notes the drop for Windows Server 2003, which is the buisness/server equivalent of XP. See the source link for the original tweet.
Source: Twitter
It's about time! There is no reason to still be using XP. Even the slowest modern computers can run Windows 7 or 8. I DON'T recommend Linux, it won't run most other good programs, and it doesn't have all the support Microsoft can give.
ReplyDeleteI wish old people would just upgrade windows from ME.
ReplyDeleteI wouldnt recommend that you recommend against Linux when the context is for running minecraft servers, which would be best case for PocketMine. For a person who wants a server to run well, running it on Linux is a very good idea.
ReplyDeleteFor servers, I actually do agree that Linux is probably best. It just doesn't do well for home, gaming, video editing, but maybe it could actually be a work computer.
ReplyDeleteI must say for me, I have no use for Windows, except for playing starbound. Other than that game, I don't use Windows for anything else, I have found everything I want in Linux. It's actually fun using computers when you know what you're doing with Linux.
ReplyDeleteWhat are, in your opinion, the pros and cons of Linux?
ReplyDeleteThe reason it doesn't do well with games is for one, AND ONLY ONE REASON. Nvidia is extremely lenient against creating drivers for Linux for some reasons that you can google for yourself. If Nvidia properly put in time, then AMD would follow and then linux would probably take over windows after a long period of transition. It will happen. Trust me.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need to be rude...
ReplyDeleteFor me, I probably won't consider linux until it gets supported by most software. There are some programs that support linux, but not enough yet.
The pros of Linux is first you pay nothing for a full fledged operating system. In a lot of cases, the hardware in the computer is utilized more efficiently. Where a lot of people say it doesn't have the software, that just means they haven't searched the open source community for equivelant software, and in some cases even better then the paid version of a product. As an example libre office is much better than Microsoft office in a lot of aspects, and that's just one example. That's just a very basic level of looking at it, because there's literally too much you could say for Linux. The cons are for a person that knows nothing about Linux, or can't use computers very well, they have a hard time with it. So the learning curve is definitely something that can be a con, but when you do learn how to utilize the command terminal even 20% you can have a lot of control over your environment, more so than you have in Windows.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Sometime in the future, if I get dissatisfied with windows, probably this is where I can turn. I'm just thinking, are there very good video editing programs on linux? That would be a deal breaker.
ReplyDeleteLrn2WINE
ReplyDelete("Windows ME" !== "Windows XP")
ReplyDeleteWindows XP was the fastest operating system Microsoft ever published. They tell me Windows XP is no longer supported -> I switch to Ubuntu.
Windows 8 is about the same speed on most hardware that Windows XP was.
ReplyDeleteAre you agreeing with me? I can't tell.
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