--- David Masten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:30, Sander Pool wrote: > > People computer illiterate enough to allow > themselves > > to get infected with sobig wouldn't know how to > install or use Linux. > > I recently saw a review of SuSE 8.2 saying that the > install was easier > than Windows. I don't know how true that is, I > haven't installed Windows > recently.
>From personal experience, I can say that Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2 were about as easy to install as Windows 2000. They asked for the same kinds of information in the same way, performed mostly the same autodetection, et cetera, and both resulted in a computer that booted into a GUI, requiring (not just politely asking for) a valid username and password (which were set up during installation) to log in. As you said, this assumes no special hardware funkiness - that is, that all the hardware is auto-detected - but that is usually the case. I suspect it is the case, again based largely on personal experience, that the latest versions of most of the more popular distributions of Linux are as easy to use for normal, day-to-day tasks as Windows. The only significant extra difficulty is finding Linux-specific versions of software one wishes to run; this depends on the specific use one has for the computer, and in some cases - graphics, for example - it is actually easier to find and use good software if one uses Linux than if one uses Windows. (Though this is why the computer I am presently at runs Windows: for computer games, simple Windows emulation is not yet here - I again speak from personal experience attempting to set up WINE, but this experience may now be a year or two out of date. But then, lately, I've been finding that even the latest versions of Windows don't emulate DOS that well, and a good portion of my game collection is classics from that era.) Back to the Subject line...there are other fixes. For instance, simply not running mail clients that auto-execute attachments, and running firewalls (both of which I do, and inspections have shown no sign of virus or worm activity on this side of my firewalls during the recent outbreaks). _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
