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On Thursday 19 December 2002 11:27, Jesse Kline wrote:
> I agree that most newbies would want a desktop as they would not want to be
> sitting in front of a shell. But isn't giving an account to any web surfer
> who wants one quite a risk?
yes. i'd only give out accounts to members, personally...
> First of all it would chew up a ton of
> bandwidth if everyone is getting VNC access to the server (and can you say
> SLOW),
which is why i suggested shell accounts rather than full desktops =)
> and with a free desktop you would have more than just potential CLUG
> members signing up, and they would be able to attack the system from the
> inside.
this would be true regardless of whether they have a GUI or not, of course.
> I would say that a better idea would be to give away Knoppix CDs to
> anyone who wants to try Linux. It has a nice GUI, it's much faster than
> VNC, and there is no configuration work for the user. Just boot the CD and
> try Linux.
yup.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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