Re: [LUG] Just Curious?

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi mathew,

even if your wife is only happy with XP you could still benefit from 
open source software - i'd be interested to know how openoffice 6 for 
windows compares.

be careful about connecting the XP machine directly to the internet - 
see http://grc.com/default.htm

BTW - there are two great tools on the site for testing firewalls under 
the shields up link - i managed a clean sweep - nothing to show [for now 
anyway :o) ].  i'd be interested in anyone else's firewalls results - or 
any windows machine's results.  i'll test out the firewall at work 
(windows SBS) and post the results,

kev

matthew.gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Small network,
>
> Frodo:    750MHz Athlon, 768MB, 40GB, DVD, CD/RW, Windows/XP
> Bilbo: 166MHz Pentium, 64MB, 4GB, My own Linux 2.4.8, CVS, DHCP, DNS, FTP
> (ProFTPd), HTTP (Apache), NNTP, SMTP (Qmail)
> Sting: 166MHz Pentium, 64MB, 4GB, My own Linux 2.4.8, NetFilter, PPP, Squid,
> Diald
> Smaug: 750MHz Pentium Laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8100), 256MB, 10GB, DVD, My own
> Linux 2.4.17
>
> Yes, I did buy Windows/XP Home Edition, and to be honest, I really like it. And
> that is a high accolade, considering my feelings about free software. My wife
> can't run Linux. I've tried everything I can to get her to use it, but it always
> causes a problem somewhere along the line, which she is unable to cope with. It
> is not that she couldn't learn, she just doesn't have the time. She's a user,
> and Windows/XP is a user's operating system.
>
> If anyone is interested, I might post a review of Windows/XP. Flames? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew
>
>
>
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