[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[RCRamsdell at gldd.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On 
> Behalf Of Martin Maney
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:09 AM
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?
> 
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:22:52AM -0700, 
> sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com wrote:
> > Thanks Martin. My ignorance kept me from trying Ubuntu in some 
> > business situations, but the lack of root could be a good thing for 
> > thwarting hackers.
> 
> Maybe, but I wouldn't place any reliance on that.  ...  Oh, it may act
as a speedbump, and 
> speedbumps are worth adding if they don't cost too much, but 
> it's not a very large one.  :-)

IMHO the lack of root is a better defense against me.  I've never been
hacked and have only seem virae and spyware a few times (on my windows
machines), so most of the 'cost' of those is in my efforts to prevent
them.  OTOH I've personally destroyed my Linux installations several
times.  I like that *I* am the biggest threat to my systems, at least
until the kids get older.


Robert