In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:26:59 +0100
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> How much abuse will you take from Microsoft?
>
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> | Well, actually, there is one thing you could do. You could switch
> | from vermin-ridden Windows to a desktop Linux.
Why? With a cheap firewall box many of the "bad packets"
are eliminated, Of course such a firewall does nothing
for spam, but that's what antiviral scanners are for on
Exchange servers.
:-)
Of course spending thousands of dollars when a free solution
(one of those below, or Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, etc. etc.)
is available may not make a lot of sense to those who are
sufficiently savvy.
> | For businesses, I
> | recommend SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10. For home users,
> | Ubuntu 6.06, SimplyMEPIS 6.0, Xandros 4, or Freespire are all
> | excellent choices.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | My only hope for most of these poor fools is that Vista's price tag will
> | make them at least consider an alternative to Windows on their desktops.
Not to mention the $2000-$3000 for the new equipment required to
run Vista Aero properly.
> | And, since Microsoft doesn't have a strangle-hold on the portable music
> | market, buyers will have the good sense to not give Zune a chance to
> | trap their music in a new Microsoft DRM (digital rights management)
> | prison.
> `---
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6131985793.html
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