RE: WashingtonPost computer security stories
-----Original Message----- From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com [mailto:Michael.Dillon@radianz.com] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:48 AM To: Joe Johnson Cc: nanog@merit.edu; Owen DeLong; owner-nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: WashingtonPost computer security stories
I can agree that Linux makes a good product for the niche market
This was a great product, and the closest thing I have seen to a really easy Linux. I picked up an Lindows box for a friend that didn't have much for a PC budget, and played with it for a little while. It was really the only version I would ever consider replacing my Windows box with. BTW, what versions of Linux does everyone consider the easiest? I've tried a few I would try in certain places, but which do you all think is the easiest? Joe Johnson that it
fills now, but there needs to be a dumbed-down version for home machines that is widely available and supported across the market for it to really make an impact.
Small computer shops can buy Seagate hard drives with this preinstalled. I believe WalMart sells computers with Linspire instead of Windows. The product was previously named Lindows until Microsoft started attacking them in foreign courts where they actually have some rights to Windows as a brand name.
-- Michael Dillon
Joe Johnson wrote:
This was a great product, and the closest thing I have seen to a really easy Linux. I picked up an Lindows box for a friend that didn't have much for a PC budget, and played with it for a little while. It was really the only version I would ever consider replacing my Windows box with.
BTW, what versions of Linux does everyone consider the easiest? I've tried a few I would try in certain places, but which do you all think is the easiest?
Joe Johnson
I don't know about "easiest" but I have a soft spot in my heart (and probably my head) for Mandrake Linux. On the spyware topic... it doesn't take spyware to take a connection down weirdly. I have one in the shop today that does connect - you can ping - but neither IE nor any other graphical app (it's WinXP Media Center Ed.) could see the internet connection. Ended up being Norton Internet Security's firewall - it was installed, but shouldn't have been running. No icon in the taskbar.... but uninstalling it did the trick. I've had similar experiences with Zonealarm in the past as well. -- Jeff Shultz Network Technician Willamette Valley Internet
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