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danny_galaga:


this is my very first non-windows driven post! i've been using firefox for a while, so i'm weened off explorer. recently though i've had some freaky stuff happen whereby someone (or some trojan/bot/virus/what-have-you) spammed everyone in my yahoo emails address book. sending the spam as me! i knew straight away because i have myself in my address book. mofos  :angry:

a good friend,  is an absolute linux nut. how much? well, he hacked an xbox so that he could run linux on it and used it as a server for his site windows1984.com! (sites gone now, dont bother looking for it). anyway, he basically said 'quit yer complaining and get linux, like ive told you to do for these last 5 years'. he recommended installing ubuntu. so i did!

it's ubuntu 8.04 and it's set up as dual boot with xp. it was quite easy to set up. probably easier than xp actually. only prob i had was that i have two hard rives and ubuntu didnt want to partition the drive with xp. so i just disconnected the secondary drive while installing. so as someone who is really scared of trying these things out, i can tell you its easy! this coming from a guy who had trouble setting up mame32...



danny_galaga:


i see there are twice as many views for my bad news...

anyway. so far so good. there was a screen flicker which i fixed by turning off 'visual effects' in the desktop. i now have xmame installed too. it runs from the same rom file as my mame32 in xp.

there will hardly be a reason anymore for me to boot up in xp now  :)

not that anyone cares  :(

patrickl:
Lol, good luck.

Are you really any safer with Linux than with Windows? I need to install so many patches to keep my servers safe. I would say that the open source software is usually riddled with security leaks. Maybe you are safer by numbers (less people with Linux, so less hackers targeting it), but I doubt Linux as such is actually safer than Windows (the newer versions at least).

danny_galaga:

i think some of what you say is true. less users, less viruses. but also (and i dont know much except to say i read it somewhere) linux is 'bolted' together differently to windoze in such a way that its really hard to breach its security. my linux friend is always telling me about it but im not technical enough to absorb the gist of it. heres some general info:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765421

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/

also, as soon as there are updates for security, ubuntu prompts you. rather than the months it takes microsoft...

patrickl:
Lol yeah, the installation/configuration nightmare that it is probably protects it from automated installations too.

BTW the security updates on Windows happen more often than every few months. You are probably thinking about service packs. Look in your update history and you'll see several updates per month.

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