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
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
that it
> fills now, but there needs to be a dumbed-down version for home
machines
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.