Hear hear. Open Office is great esp. the latest 1.1 version. Office costs a packet and I actually think that it is too complicated to use, especially MS Access, almost cryptic!
Upgrading Linux is important, however the weaknesses are harder to exploit and require a higher level of programming sophistication than your average boy hacker.
Therefore, even without the upgrades, the chances of viral, worm and other attacks is majorly below that of a windows system with many untested weaknesses.
This is the appeal of Linux, over Windows. The bugfixes and updates only make it that much more secure than Windows assisted by inbuilt firewalling and protocols that you can turn off, such as the dreaded ntpd time server daemon that I have discovered with help from a friend, was corrupting my updates, yeah I'm learning.
And you can see all the files loading when you boot up which is an excellent tool for troubleshooting and keeping an eye on your system.
Especially if you like to tinker, I can find out what has caused what and what's going on, rather than with Windows, everything hidden and difficult to access, wasting valuable time. Little enough of that these days.
Business needs computers that won't crash or lock up because of some read or write failure.
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Hear hear. Open Office is great esp. the latest 1.1 version. Office costs a packet and I actually think that it is too complicated to use, especially MS Access, almost cryptic!
Upgrading Linux is important, however the weaknesses are harder to exploit and require a higher level of programming sophistication than your average boy hacker. Therefore, even without the upgrades, the chances of viral, worm and other attacks is majorly below that of a windows system with many untested weaknesses. This is the appeal of Linux, over Windows. The bugfixes and updates only make it that much more secure than Windows assisted by inbuilt firewalling and protocols that you can turn off, such as the dreaded ntpd time server daemon that I have discovered with help from a friend, was corrupting my updates, yeah I'm learning. And you can see all the files loading when you boot up which is an excellent tool for troubleshooting and keeping an eye on your system. Especially if you like to tinker, I can find out what has caused what and what's going on, rather than with Windows, everything hidden and difficult to access, wasting valuable time. Little enough of that these days. Business needs computers that won't crash or lock up because of some read or write failure.