I have seen fleeting references to a windows 98 third edition (unofficial, of course) in this forum from time to time.
I tried searching the forums with the MSFN search facility & it turned up some oblique refernces to a 3rd edition, but no details.

So, does it exist?

What is its status?

WW

the third edition usually refers to windows me.

Usually?

@wild weasel
I guess that you are talking about the project LLXX announced here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=74797&st=4
and that is still in the works according to this:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...89278&st=10


jaclaz

It could have possibly one of the many projects people create (there were many on OSBA), or as said above could just be someone referring to Millenium Edition.

Thanks jaclaz!

Jaclaz "got" what I was referring to - LLXX's effort at a win98 "3rd" edition.
That was excatly what I was referring to.

I wonder how far its got?

WW

well there are some mods of the existing 9x systems.
Windows 98se and Millennium have both got a new lease of life in my Virtual Machine.
I have also fortified them with proprietary executable compression.
The only reason I don't share it is that microsoft would archive it.
Then we'd all be ripped again.
98 1ST edition can be rounded down to just 50mb.
98se well thats just it its SE and that means its like the vista of nt .. it lags.
cut out ie and outlook express implant firefox and thunderbird and plant in around oh say 2000 files from millennium you
have a very sleek windows with awesome speed even in vm.
Windows millennium suffers from system file protection and rollback.
It would be the easiest to manicure but also the most resource hungry.
At least my 98se is permanently protected from virus with the compression preventing these parasites from saving as the executable run in memory not on scratch.
hey i'd even give it to a mass fileshare network but then some lil script kiddy would wreck it to ruin everyone.
I speculate microsoft is in bittorrent and also in nero and norton.
bittorent suffers microsofts dummy file shares causing hash fails.
Norton and Nero cripple system components if your key doesn't pass.
win 9x is immune to that crap.
Communism is the grand daddy of proprietary in my opinion and vista is the worst case of user uncontrollability
especially on the hardware scene.
I use my vm windows to use the net and my system is as good as new and i can just paste a backup of my vm when i know it is ruined hacked or just shabby.
Im gonna stop rambling now hope this helps.
Keywords for google: 98setome 98setoxp 98wmp10