Brad Bourn wrote:
Nothing is worth keeping and running as an alternative to SuSE! let alone from M$!
heheh
seriously, though, I have to admit that although I haven't used it since I got it, I've left the windows partition on my new laptop if for nothing else than to have for someone else to use if need be. And to help take up space on the harddrive.
Also carrying it around with me as prone as it is to virus and the like, I get to live dangerously without actually taking the risk of booting it.
Careful, it might still catch a virus even when powered off -- so I'm paranoid. I've got a neighbour who has a problem with malware, luckily he didn't click on it when it appeared, It's a scam by tibsystems.com where they apparently (they say so) can even hijack your broadband connection and route it via their anonymous number, so you get charged 75.00 UK Pounds (140.00 US) for every hour spent online, seems to be some peer-to-peer scammers network. He got a guy to clean it out, but it's reappeared. Anti-Virus software doesn't know it's there and the spyware/malware products are not effective, XP firewall is ineffective, so I'm due to pay visit No.3 to see if the tackle I have on CD is man enough to clear it out. I must email the RHCE guy who said it took him 5 hours to completely remove one such bit of malware from his wife's XP box, now a Linux box, perhaps I can get a few tips from him. If the MS advert I saw today on the web is what MS reckon is a secure and robust OS, namely XP, then they are chronically delusionary or security-wise severly retarded. There was an article a few days ago at msn.com by a guy at MS on "How can I trust Firefox?", I posted an apposite response to his blog, which surprisingly got moderated. This evening I picked upp a mail from PC Magazine with an article on spyware/malware being out of control by Dvorak, it's an educational read. When I got my nice new laptop, I booted XP just to check the main things worked, a few minutes later the HD was wiped of the dead fish and SuSE 9.1 installation began. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====