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Linux Desktop Security for New Users?

Posted by Cliff on from the protecting-the-initiates dept.

theblkadder asks: "Our company is currently undergoing a company-wide transition to Linux on the desktop. While there are numerous excellent guides and tutorials for the admin crowd, I haven't been able to turn up much for the non-technical user. I'm looking for something that would cover such topics as basic desktop do's and don'ts, like 'do choose a non-dictionary password' and 'don't blindly drop to root and install an unverified/unauthenticated RPM that you receive via email,' etc. Anyone seen a guide like this?"

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  1. Securing Linux in a nutshell. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    1) Run FDISK

    2) Install Windows XP

    3) Activate product and apply patches

    . . .

    ???) PROFIT!!!

  2. I wouldn't trust Linux for secure computing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Without initiatives like Trustworthy Computing, Hailstorm and Passport the Linux platform is dead on arrival. Your users will be infested with bugs and malfunctioning hardware and shit like LG CD-ROM drives blowing up and their iPods not working, and their Dell Axims not connecting.

    There's a vendor over in Seattle, called Minisoft something, look them up in a phonebook or ask some hardcore geek friends of yours, they make a kickass GUI, and their distro might hit it big someday.

  3. Shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Sounds like someone didn't do their project management. Any user roll-out, even stuff like enterprise portals, usually involves training and there's budget ans time allocated for it.

    Switch back to Windows until it's too late, you lose your job for failing the project, your IT people get outsourced to India for being unable to cope with red Hag or Mandrake and the company becomes a poser on fuckedcompany.cpom.

  4. ii (___|___) ii HARRRRRR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll