Welcome to the light side. <The force is strong in the young one.> On Mon, June 25, 2007 4:58 pm, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > All, > Having been on the `Net for nearly 15yrs, and I never caught a virus... > until the other night. I knew the second it happened. I was suckered in > to clicking on something I shouldn't have. I was Trojan'd. As I > performed the cleanup, I reevaluated my workstation in general. I was > time for a new one. But, if I buy a new PC, will I buy one with Vista > (not ready, time consuming) or XP (days are numbered) ? Or something > else ? > For years I have been getting flack from people about moving to a Mac > or putting Linux on my desktop. "Mike your so in to Unix, why don't you > get a Mac or use Linux on your PC ?" For years I have not been able to > do it and be able to conduct business the way I needed to. I was bound > to applications that only ran on Windows (MS Project, Visio, Groove, > various VPN clients, and web-based tools that only worked with IE on > Windows, etc). It wasn't that there weren't other tools that did the > same functions, it was that these tools were required to collaborate > with the other Windows users I did business with. > Several months ago, I stopped working for a large defense contractor > where most of those applications were required. Business with M5Hosting > has been brisk to say the least. I didn't have time to upgrade my OS and > make all the changes that come with it. No time for Vista, no time for > Mac, and no time for Linux. > My office PC is getting old. The virus was a disruptive event that > caused me to stop and look at what I am doing. After careful evaluation > and years in anticipation by many.... > I am now using Ubuntu on my PC !!! I know that's not earth shattering > in and of itself, but there are two things that I find interesting: > 1) Given the requirements of being my desktop and running my business > from it (respecting the goals of profit and productivity), I chose a > Linux system. > 2) It has been SO EASY !!! Printers, email, browser plugins, HTML > editor, accessing the existing file server, handling video media, > workign with my dual 24in widescreens. It was all easy. Ubuntu is light > years ahead of my last attempt at using Linux as a productive desktop > for myself. > > I have always been more of a RedHat guy than a Debian guy. My previous > desktop attempts were KDE not Gnome. I will have questions for the list. > > Cheers, > Mike > > > -- > ************************************************************ > Michael J. McCafferty > Principal, Security Engineer > M5 Hosting > http://www.m5hosting.com > > You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! > RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more > ************************************************************ > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list >
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