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How Necessary Is Windows? Part 1: Overview
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| What makes it urgent now is a creeping
| suspicion I have that Windows malware is
| unstoppable. I see articles on tech sites
| several times a week describing new and
| increasingly clever exploits of flaws in
| Microsoft and Adobe software. This is
| troubling on many fronts, from the
| technicalâWhy in hell do we still have
| buffer overflow exploits after all these
| years?âto the purely political: How do we
| know that exploits in closed-source
| software have really been fixed? Linux is
| not immune to infection (itâs secure at
| least in part because of its rarity) but
| the fact is that infections are difficult
| and rarely seen in the wild. I want to take
| advantage of that security, whatever its
| origins.
|
| Hence the current project.
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http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=996
How Necessary Is Windows? Part 2: Ubuntu
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| Apart from its contrarian (and purely
| optional) brownness, Karmicâs default GNOME
| desktop is a great deal like Windows XP.
| The taskbar functionality is divided
| between two panels, one at the top and one
| at the bottom. Now that 20â displays are
| common, I use two lines for the Windows
| taskbar as well and donât begrudge GNOME
| the extra lineâand you can put both panels
| at the screen bottom if you want to.
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http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=998
Recent:
Are You Getting Sick Of Microsoft Windows? Itâs Time To Give Ubuntu Linux A Whirl
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| About 18 months ago, I had another
| disastrous crash on my PC that caused me to
| lose a host of photos, music and documents.
| Luckily I had a backup of most of my
| documents on an external disk. So I wasnât
| too concerned by this. I had experienced
| many crashes on Windows before and usually
| I was able to recover most of my documents
| and restore the system back to normal
| without too much effort.
|
| This time was different however and to my
| horror, I discovered that Windows had
| somehow corrupted my external disk as well.
| I had lost everything and was pretty angry
| about it.
|
| I tried a number of data recovery programs
| but most of the files wore gone. Forever.
| What a disaster! At that point I decided
| that I would look for another alternative
| to windows and I thought I would give Linux
| another try.
|
| [...]
|
| I was astounded!
|
| Within 10 minutes my computer was running
| Ubuntu Linux without even having to install
| it! This was a âLive-CDâ and it can be used
| without installing to hard disk â it can be
| run from a cd without affecting your
| computer at all.
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http://linux.bihlman.com/2009/11/09/are-you-getting-sick-of-microsoft-windows-its-time-to-give-ubuntu-linux-a-whirl/
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