With the advent of Linux on desktops, there are people like me who just use it as a replacement for win95. We are now being given more power than they know what to do with. I am at university with a 100 base T ethernet in my room. I could have someone hacking into my computer and use it for DoS without me knowing, cos I've got a great big industrial strength OS and don't have a clue what it all does. As the Linux revolution gets underway, it is going to be increasingly important for distros to turn off everything and provide the documentation to let people learn what they're doing before they can turn it on. Win95's best security feature is that it almost entirely featureless. You need to email someone and have them do something daft before you can run stuff like BO on their machine.
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With the advent of Linux on desktops, there are people like me who just use it as a replacement for win95. We are now being given more power than they know what to do with. I am at university with a 100 base T ethernet in my room. I could have someone hacking into my computer and use it for DoS without me knowing, cos I've got a great big industrial strength OS and don't have a clue what it all does. As the Linux revolution gets underway, it is going to be increasingly important for distros to turn off everything and provide the documentation to let people learn what they're doing before they can turn it on. Win95's best security feature is that it almost entirely featureless. You need to email someone and have them do something daft before you can run stuff like BO on their machine.