Posted on 04/04/2006 9:16:35 AM PDT by N3WBI3
You are so full of crap that I couldn't care less what a raving lunatic like you has to say.
Again, you are irrevelant.
Don't you folks hate trolls?
Bump for later reading (and thanks for the post)!
Mandriva use here.
It just gets better and better all the time.
As usual, you're showing where you have no idea what you're talking about or just can't read. As I promised, I won't call you ignorant, since you purposely avoid knowledge. It's too kind of a word for you.
The compromised FSF computer was replaced and files posted to the new server after verification (good security practice, keeping hashes of your files). The Debian and Gentoo systems were running file integrity checkers, which pinpoint exactly what was modified by the attacker at the file level (no archaic registry to mess with and search through), making cleanup easy and sure.
Sure was, so of course I was correct all along.
Correct in what? And the machines with integrity checkers?
You know nothing of Linux, only your little Windows world. You think that because things are hard on Windows, they must be hard on Linux. Sorry, a Linux system is not as hard to clean. There's no massive registry where multiple rootkits can hide themselves.
I personally don't like dual-boot b/c I tend to stay with one O/S. I prefer virtual machines and now that Xen is packaged with SuSE it should work out fine.
Congratulations on the switch and thanks for the feedback - it's always helpful to hear what others are doing.
Those Linux systems were rebuilt just as they should have been. Anyone claiming they weren't is simply attempting more "linux lies" to cover up the original ones.
One (FSF) was replaced, I suspect so there was no down time during a repair. The others were cleaned and put back online.
As far as the system is concerned, if you have a file integrity checker, you know EXACTLY what the rootkit modified. You then replace the affected files, run a couple standard utilities to make sure you got everything, and put the system online again. There's no need to rebuild. It's usually not quite so easy with Windows, with that joke of a registry.
"Anyone claiming they weren't is simply attempting more "linux lies" to cover up the original ones."
Wait...I thought the lie you were trying to expose was when Zeugma supposedly said that Linux never needed re-installing?
I'm still looking for that, BTW, since you never link to anything specific.
Plus, I no longer have access to the FC cd's I borrowed--I was an idiot and didn't make copies of them. 8^|
Personally, I'm a huge Slackware fan, but as I have others who are not as knowledgeable who use my computer (both OSs). I don't think it's wise for me to run Slack 10.1 and Windows--and then expect people to figure out how to run Linux.
Suse is a lot easier and provides a nicer transition than Slack, IMHO.
Wouldn't mind trying Gentoo--is there a live CD available?
I'm using Xandros right now. It is a very good distro. It runs really smoothly on both my laptop and desktop. I have officially said goodbye to Windows and have successfully migrated to Linux, thanks to Linspire and Xandros.
I used to use both Linspire and Xandros, but I decided to switch to Xandros because it meets my needs better than Linspire. Right now I am hoping that Xandros will officially have LSongs and LPhoto added to Xandros Networks (XN is to Xandros as CNR is to Linspire).
Linspire's no good?
I'm eagerly awaiting Xandros 4.0, since it will be based on the Debian Common Core, which should result in better compatibility with other DCC-based OSes. Xandros 4.0 and Linspire 6.0 are both supposed to be based on DCC, so by basing both on DCC, it should be easier to port LSongs and LPhoto from Linspire to Xandros.
Seriously, if LSongs were to be made officially available to Xandros 4.0, I would buy Xandros 4.0 in a nanosecond.
Speaking of Xandros, check the 2nd photo on the Xandros wiki entry. It's a screen capture of my Xandros laptop running the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME runs very good on Xandros. You just have to know how to properly install it (and it helps to "pin" your apt sources).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros
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