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Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Sun Aug 15 17:25:59 2004

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:16:50 -0700
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: "Joe Johnson" <jjohnson@jmdn.net>,
	"Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <012001c48302$30bccf70$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 12:58 PM 08/15/04 -0700, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>SuSe linux can be installed on the first attempt by Windoze-only gurus (I
>did such experiment) and never require any command line interaction (except
>if you decide to run something complicated).

My then-16-year-old son did the same, building a dual boot, and prefers it. 
The only reason he runs Windows rather than Linux is the games; Linux's 
windows-API software needs a lot of work. 


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