begin quoting Rachel Garrett as of Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:33:04PM -0700: > On 4/20/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:50:27AM -0700, Rachel Garrett wrote: > > > My concern about Lindows (or whatever the kids are calling it now) is > > that it hangs the fruit way low and doesn't attempt to even educate the > > new buyers that there could be problems. > > Actually, it's worse than that. They talk about Linux's better > security as a reason to get Linspire. Bleah.
> From the Linspire home page (linspire.com), there's a link called > "What Is Linux?" It redirects to http://tryoutlinux.com, which > pretends to "recommend" Linspire even though the site is obviously run > *by* Linspire. Among the reasons listed for "Why Linux?" is... > > "7. Virus Protection and Security. The basic underlying architecture > of Linux was designed with security in mind. The problems MS Windows > has had with viruses, worms and security breaches are well known. > Some versions of Linux even come with Anti-virus integrated right into > the operating system for even additional protection." Heh. I don't _want_ to go into my opinions on viruses just now... > I apologize for posting this right around the time many of us are > eating lunch. You should be. -Stewart "Now how do I clean my monitor?" Stremler
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