Re: Family tech support

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

I'm a huge Linux fan. I use it everywhere for servers (usually on top of
VMware ESXi), and try to get clients with lightweight needs to use it on
the desktop. Ubuntu and OO really do meet the needs of Suzy secretary,
Joe accountant and Biff "Frat Boy" trader (who should be using RDC/VNC
to tightly controlled platforms, as opposed to having access to PII and
mission critical data directly) very well, and protect you from their
clicking on links in e-mail. 

Been a Unix geek forever (back to Unix Sys V.3 ). 

Been there, done that on mainframes (first actual cert was Sys 370
operator, 1978, at the age of 10).

First 'net login was on a PDP/11-40 we hacked together from parts at the
RDS computer club in 1981.

Have Solaris Competency 2000, SNIA SAN for Networkers, and lots of other
equally economically useless certs.

Converted companies from Sun and PC to Mac once OSX came out.

Personally, I use Windows (7 currently on the primary, Vista on the
laptop and Home Theater), and Visual Studio, with VMWare Workstation;
because I have repeatedly run into things I CAN'T DO, with all the other
platforms, that I can, with Windows.

YMMV. Let the tool fit the requirement.


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Robert Portvliet
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:51 PM
To: Larry Seltzer
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Family tech support

Because that's what they know, $DEITY forbid they have to learn anything
new...

*sigh* I can't see Linux ever really being big on the desktop, pretty
much just for this reason.


On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
wrote:
> > > Look, I don't want to fire up the old controversies, but for some
> people
> > > (ladysolly, older daughter, me), it seems to have everything we
need,
> > > And Microsoft ought to be told this. In case they can make something
> > > competitive.
>
> The recent experience with netbooks shows that your experience is
> atypical. Netbooks were widely available with Linux and users rejected
> them in droves, demanding (!) Windows XP instead.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
>
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