[Ham-Computers] New Computer/OS

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On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:33, Paul Ahkolik wrote:
> Win XP an adware magnet? That's like saying the Pope's
> Catholic hi hi.
> 
> Seriousley though, anything running on the NTFS platform,
> which is alledgedly the most effiecnt storage method yet,
> (I got a bridge for sale) is without a doubt the most
> security-plagued OS ever released by Microsoft.
> 
> Why do you think the FBI released a report on the holes
> (security) that XP has in it? In a test, I managed to
> "hack" my own laptop & desktop running XP Pro & home
> respectively, due to the level of "security" in XP
> 
> You're way better off going no later (Windows) then
> 98SE/ME, or better yet, "alternative" OS' like Beos, Red
> Hat, Mandrake, or "Lindows".

I would generally agree with that, unfortunately there are
still some application developers that are short-sighted 
enough to restrict their market to Windows, some don't 
even work under WINE on Linux.

I therefore have both Windows 98 & Linux Mandrake 10.1 on
this machine and NEVER, EVER go online with Windows.

BTW has anyone tried Knoppix for Hams - I tried to find a
site to download from but keep getting time-out messages.

Paul
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