In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/08/98
at 03:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>There is NO
>WAY I could recommend someone install Red Hat 3.0.3 and then connect the
>machine to the Internet! This does not mean that Red Hat 3.0.3 was buggy
>- it's just that the security holes that no-one knew about (and hardware
>bugs like the Pentium f00f problem) would leave that machine completely
>vulnerable to today's hackers.
I suspect you are thinking of the American way of connecting 'permanently'
to the internet. over this side of the pond most people I know only
connect for the minimum time, to download mail or whatever because it
costs money everytime we make a phone call, even local ones. Surely there
is little vulnerabiity to hackers for people like me (and not every one
has upgraded to pentiums there are plenty of 486s still in use).
I still think it should be possible to set up a Linux distribution that
ask pertinent questions during the installation, are you on a network, do
you have an ISP and so on. We are asked about SCSI disks, I think,
already. Extend this idea, use something like xisp to set up an internet
connection. I got interested in Linux because a version of Slakware was on
a magazine cover CD. Because it was fairly simple to install I got hooked.
A lot of it seemed much like CP/M or dos so it wasn't quite the culture
shock for me that todays winlusers get when they try to run Linux.
Don't get me wrong - I want Linux to succeed and I think the rpm idea is
far to superior to the old disk based installation that I started with. It
is one of the reasons I picked RH rather than another distribution. That
plus good reviews in Linux Journal and other places. Most of the people
posting on this group seem to be network professionals so much of the
content is aimed at their needs. It concerns me when newbies have so many
problems even getting started. I would like to see this first step made
easier.
[ For the record I have absolutely no knowledge of programming so can do
little personally to help in the development of Linux. I missed out on the
ZX80 coding era and never even looked at basic or pascal. I was too busy
being a user of software specific to my employer's business.
It was because we were forbidden to use the computers for anything other
than the officially provided software (dismissal for mis-using company
resources was the ultimate threat) that I decided to get a computer of my
own to find out what made them tick. There was some justification for my
employers attitude, security of the data was paramount.
It may seem crazy in today's computer oriented world but I was in serious
trouble with the trade union reps in our office for taking a portable
computer (a Wren CP/M job) to work to run a Supercalc based spreadsheet
that I had set up to help me with the job I was doing at the time. ]
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