From: Mark Warner on
h.godavari wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>> h.godavari wrote:
>>>
>>> I was thinking about root-kit and such.. I am looking at a book(from
>>> our library) "Hardening Linux" by James Turnbull -- 500 odd pages.
>>> All I want to do is email and a bit of surfing (like visiting
>>> Distrowatch :-) ) No music and no videos. %00 pages of stuff to read
>>> and try to remember all those new terms is a bit beyond my two grey
>>> cells.
>>>
>>> I started installing Debian and stopped halfway when I ran into
>>> several hundred pages of securing the distro. That was several months
>>> ago and I have picked up the energy to do what they advise :-(
>>
>> Forget all that nonsense about "hardening Linux". It's plenty hard for
>> desktop use straight out of the box. Your stuff isn't important to
>> anybody. (Running a large enterprise server is a different story.)
>>
>> Just grab an ISO, install it, and use it.
>
> Thanks Mark

You're welcome. Let me know if I can help get you started, or at least
pointed in the right direction.

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From: Mark Warner on
Bear Bottoms wrote:
>
> Why not start Linux threads? Why hi-jack a thread titled IE8 and Win98SE.
> This is the rude behavior well known from Linux fans.

I own you.

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From: Mark Warner on
Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
>>> Why not start Linux threads? Why hi-jack a thread titled IE8 and
>>> Win98SE. This is the rude behavior well known from Linux fans.
>> I own you.
>
> The dreams of a wimp.

See what I mean? You can't help yourself.

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From: Mister2u on

> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/ KernelEx is an Open Source
> compatibility layer with an aim to allow running Windows 2000/XP-only
> applications on Microsoft Windows 98 and Microsoft Windows Millennium
> operating systems.
>
> --
> Mike Easter

Thanks that looks good.