__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Saturday 20 May 2006 03:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mathew P.
> <Mathew@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Sat, 20 May 2006 01:00:28 GMT
> <MStbg.1200$p13.554@trnddc07>:
>>
>> On 2006-05-19, Au79 spake thusly:
>>> NewsForge - USA
>>>
>>> As far as I'm concerned, vulnerability to malware, DLL ... The bugs that
>>> were hard for Microsoft to find and fix ... It will have vulnerabilities
>>> that are part of its ...
>>>
>>><http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/19/1323242>
>>
>> I especially liked this comment on the Wiki:
>>
>> Windows works for me... (Score:0)
>> By Anonymous Reader on 2006.05.19 19:23 (#126630)
>> ...since I only use it as an X terminal to my Unix box.
>>
>> Gotta' love it :-)
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Mathew
>>
>
> Hmmm....a good short term solution, perhaps, but I for one would hope
> longer-term that he can get X running natively on his box. Cygwin/X
> is not all that great performance-wise. :-)
I started with Linux by running RLogin and SSH with X server, under Windows
98. It is a good place to start. Of course, at the time I did not know
anything about dual-boot settings, virtualisation (immature if not
inexistent) and I had no experience installing Linux.
Best wishes,
Roy
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