On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > In fairness, Doc would have passed over any Linux box with issues to one > of the volunteers who is more familiar with the OS. I remember the > machine you are mentioning, and we had one other Linux grad box where > the student had completely filled up his disk, to the point that the OS > couldn't even boot. But I don't think we have ever even SEEN a virus, > or malware, on any Linux machine at ByteWorks. Robert, would you agree > with that statement?
I do agree. The reason I mentioned Doc was because the EAC machines used to run Windows and it may be that those machines had gotten a virus. Granted, that would have been over three years ago. Since we moved to Linux, I cannot recall a single instance. The two most frequent issues that I have had to deal with the EAC machines running Linux are 1) connecting to DSL and 2) running Windows software from the public library. The DSL issue is a human one and not a technical one -- ATT only understands MSIE, which I find ironic given that they created unix. Solution: Konqueror works just fine. Educational software from the library is more challenging. I don't have a good solution for that, yet. Regards, - Robert
