For those that like to play the devil's advocate and state that linux
based viruses ARE coming to linux as it's popularity grows; this is a
great commentary explaining why I will never be true. (Oh, yeah, for
OS/X as well)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/
--
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:48:34 +1000
Stephen Kühn disseminated the following:
For those that like to play the devil's advocate and state that linux
based viruses ARE coming to linux as it's popularity grows; this is a
great commentary explaining why I will never be true. (Oh, yeah, for
OS/X as
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote:
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the
windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install
any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from
You need to specify
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote:
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the
windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install
any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote:
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the
windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install
any software for
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote:
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the
windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install
My info may be dated. I am still on version 1.02 of Open Office
and the last time I did some research, there were still some
compatibility problems with some XP file formats. Version 1.1 is
supposed to be fully compatible according to the website, but I am
not running that version.--
I
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows
files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that
. If yes then where do we get that software from
vikrant
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Still single? Click
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can
acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux.
If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you
install.
If you want to write to them also, you will want them on a seperate
FAT32 partition.
eric
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:25 pm, many eyes noted that Eric Huff wrote:
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can
acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux.
If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you
install.
If you want to
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:38:25 -0800
Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is from a Win list. All above my head. Any truth to it?
None whatsoever.
No one with any experience in security and who has not been bought off my MS
seriously believes that Windows is *anywhere near* as secure as Linux or
On Saturday 29 November 2003 08:38 pm, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
This is from a Win list. All above my head. Any truth to it?
Given that a lot of virus writers and malicious hackers are in it purely for
the bragging rights and given that any successful mainstream virus or exploit
on Linux systems
Hello Russ,
Saturday, November 29, 2003, 5:38:25 PM, you wrote:
R Hi All,
R This is from a Win list. All above my head. Any truth to it?
R Thanks
R Russ
R [I suspect almost no Unix users know how to properly configure
R IPchains to prevent a random process from accessing the network
R
that common sense is usually the best defense against virial
infection.
Chad Vogelsong
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux forwarding Windows
Chad wrote:
Must you incorporate it: No
Should you incorporate it? Depends on your moral obligation. Some people
take the high road and say, They are running Windows. They deserve what
they get. Virus's and all. Some take the low road. Some of my friends
still run Windows I don't want
Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux forwarding Windows viruses
Must you incorporate it: No
Should you incorporate it? Depends on your moral obligation. Some people
take the high road and say, They are running Windows. They deserve what
they get. Virus's and all. Some take the low road. Some of my
Yes. Not only is dual booting (having two operating systems on one computer) possible,
it's common. It's a great way to see if you like Linux without making a commitment. My
computers have both Windows and Mandrake 8.1, although I like Mandrake so much more
that I'll be removing Windows soon.
Ivo,
One more thing - Linux has a nice utility called diskdrake, which makes
it easy to shrink your existing windows partition to make room for
linux. It runs during the install process.
Assuming that you are using W98, before you try to install, defrag the
disk ensuring that the option to
I have recently downloaded Mandrake 8.2. Before i install i want to know whether is it
possible to have both windows and Linux on one computer. If so could you give me
detalized step-by-step instructions...Well i am really a newbie to Linux :)
Also could you give me some installation
I have recently downloaded Mandrake 8.2. Before I install I want
to know whether is it possible to have both windows and Linux on
one computer. If so could you give me detailed step-by-step
instructions...
For one, please take a look at the instructions I wrote up for installing
8.1 at
On Fri, 3 May 2002 12:52:27 +0300 (GMT+03:00)
ivo ailis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recently downloaded Mandrake 8.2. Before i install i want to
know whether is it possible to have both windows and Linux on one
computer. If so could you give me detalized step-by-step
instructions...Well
Kristjan Klementi wrote:
You can try installing Linux on Win only if you have 95/98/ME...
Nt and above are independent OS and do not allow that action.
I'm a little confused by the above -- it may be misleading (or I may be
confused):
AFAIK, you can install Linux in a dual boot configuration
On Fri, 03 May 2002 14:51:12 -0400
Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kristjan Klementi wrote:
You can try installing Linux on Win only if you have 95/98/ME...
Nt and above are independent OS and do not allow that action.
I'm a little confused by the above -- it may be misleading (or
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:06:07 +0200
Dennis Dreesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded the ISO files: Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586,
Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586, and Mandrake82-cd3-supp.i586 and burned them to a
CD.
In the installation file, it's mentioned that you can install Linux to a
Hi,
I downloaded the ISO files: Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586,
Mandrake82-cd2-ext.i586, and Mandrake82-cd3-supp.i586 and burned them to a
CD.
In the installation file, it's mentioned that you can install Linux to a
Windows folder, so you don't need another partition. It's ideal for a
try-out, but
Thanks a lot for the warm welcome I got on this list.
I want my linux machine connected to the internet on eth0. Eth1 I want
connected to my windows machine. At least one of them should have
read/write permission on the other. I do not wish to share the internet
connection.
The windows machine
When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0%
dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does
this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is
the case, wich one?
What do you mean it keeps pinging forever?
does it return
On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote:
When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0%
dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does
this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is
the case, wich one?
That's
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Matt Greer wrote:
On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote:
When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0%
dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does
this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and
Doesn anyone know anything about linux for windows? I'm having trouble
getting it installed.
Matt Pirritano
University of New Mexico
Dept of Psychology
New Mexico, USA
Actually there are many of us that read this list that know about this
very thing. And the single most important thing we know about this
particular topic is that if you want to get Linux to install correctly DO
NOT attempt to install Linux on a DOS partition. Install it on it's own
partition.
I run Linux4Windows and I am happy with it. By comparison though it is
nowhere as fast as a full Linux 7.2 installation on a dedicated parition.
Currently, I have WindowsME on a 4GB drive and a slave with 30GB which I use
for raw video,music, and still photos for my video editing hobby. I want
Anyone have any suggestions about this version?Its mandrake 7.2 but it
is a folder in windows.seems to work well but i cannot get on-line.
Have a HP 600mhz celeron Network card trying to get on-line thru Road
Runner cable modem.
phil
and surf the net.
Linux blows windoze out of the water.
Regards Anthony Daniell
- Original Message -
From: Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Linux List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows
Why are so many Linux user so interested
Why are so many Linux user so interested in how popular Linux is with
the mainstream public. Screw the ignorant masses. If they want a
seamingly (until you have to do something other than write memos)
idiot-proof OS, let them use MS.
I use Linux because it is powerful and stable and
Mark Weaver wrote:
At present, Linux is still relatively complex to set up and use, however it is
progressing at a rapid pace.
But until it reaches the point that your average Joe Bloggs (sorry Joe, just
picking a name out of the air :) who works in the bakery down the street, can go
]
Registered Linux user 183185
- Original Message -
From: David Grubb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows
I'd just like to add my $0.02 here, at the risk of heading OT and being
inundated with flames.
I
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 Jeff Malka had this to say!
That kind of thinking makes no sense to me.
If it does what you want, just more easily, the question becomes why dump
it?
If you want a "puzzle" to figure out, there are the crosswords. If you want
an OS, what is wrong with it being easy
What?! Windows started out *worse* than it is now. I would say that it's
becoming more stable.
Here's the rub...Tom Brinkman said it best in another, somewhat related
post, the more accomodating the OS becomes to hardware vendors and overall
users the more relaxed standards become. In so
At present, Linux is still relatively complex to set up and use, however it is
progressing at a rapid pace.
But until it reaches the point that your average Joe Bloggs (sorry Joe, just picking
a name out of the air :) who works in the bakery down the street, can go home, turn
on his
The Point Linux will never win its way into peoples homes until
manufacturers decide to start porting their code to linux, so us people
at
home can use our digicams, scanners etc... just as easy as ever!
(without
even so much as a chmod etc)
why should they wish to do such a
03, 2000 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows
I'd just like to add my $0.02 here, at the risk of heading OT and being
inundated with flames.
I whole-heartedly agree Linux is a far-better, quality system than certain
other OSs, and I have enjoyed many months of learning and working
I happen to agree with David 100%. I too am a computer enthusiast and
have a few computers at home but only one runs linux, my wife's and
daughter's run Win98 and I have them running trouble free and many
times for weeks at a time without a problem. I see nothing evil about
M$, free
Thank you Jeff, I appreciate the kind words.
On Monday 04 December 2000 09:05, you wrote:
I happen to agree with David 100%. I too am a computer enthusiast
and have a few computers at home but only one runs linux, my
wife's and daughter's run Win98 and I have them running trouble
free
I think the many strengths of Linux can only be added to by smoother
installation. Linux remains a very strong, felxible, stable, and free
os. Sure, it may take the fun of the chase out of installing for a few
souls, but you can be rest assured (I hope) that any work done on
usabillity and
The Point Linux will never win its way into peoples homes until
manufacturers decide to start porting their code to linux, so us people at
home can use our digicams, scanners etc... just as easy as ever! (without
even so much as a chmod etc)
why should they wish to do such a thing
it _has_ an "install-shield". It just doesn't happen to look like the one
thats in windows. Nor should it. there are some things, I would agree,
that need to change, but one of them isn't becoming windows, or even
Windows-like. Since I became a Linux user two years ago I've watched first
RedHat
I'd just like to add my $0.02 here, at the risk of heading OT and being inundated with
flames.
I whole-heartedly agree Linux is a far-better, quality system than certain other OSs,
and I have enjoyed many months of learning and working with it, and I look forward to
many more years of
Mr Monster wrote:
Right, Ive been reading the mails about the pros and cons of
Linux/Windows...
Im running Mandrake 7.2 now, with not so much as a hiccup, everything is
doing what it should, when it should - just the way i like it, and the way i
suspect most other folks do too.
I
Most people that write drivers for Linux do it for the love of it or for
the necessity. Probably both.
Mr Monster wrote:
Right, Ive been reading the mails about the pros and cons of
Linux/Windows...
Im running Mandrake 7.2 now, with not so much as a hiccup, everything is
doing what it
-Original Message-
From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 6:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] The finale of the linux vs. windows. vs. tanks
batmobiles :)
Look at existing realities rather than speculation. Microsoft has
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:
Look at existing realities rather than speculation. Microsoft has
announced
that they will likely produce only one more MS-Office upgrade before this
product becomes an Internet-server distributed product.
Why is this a bad thing
I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a
year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc.
But I've have enough of the critism that is passed around by the linux
community, whats the matter with you people Bill Gates made a system that
Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for
one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux
MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not
much time each day to do some work on this system. I am NOT complaining
most of
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for
one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux
MDK as well and have so much
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, NO Flames on this one please, it is a desperate cry for HELP. I for
one am having some difficulty in getting some thingys to work in Linux
MDK as well and have so much to learn with reading all of this mail not
much time each day to do some work
Well, guyz, you seem to have a lot of problems with your linux boxes
(espacially Chadley), but I can tell you that they ARE solvable. You CAN
setup the servers you want with linux.
I think that if you don't want to spend time configuring your system and
understanding how it works, you'd better
Snippets:
No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3
pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than
windows ever was.
And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb
ram , I think somebody should pull that statement
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Snippets:
Bit onesided like Linux Lewis fight :-)
--
Regards
John the Nadger
http://www.mklinux.co.uk
http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
I realize you're venting but let's go over some of these:
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote:
I'm not trying to be unreasonable but I have worked on linux for well over a
year and Id like to say that linux is greater than windows stability etc.
But I've have enough of the critism that is passed
Just my 2 cents, I think everyone should have the
choice to run what os most suitably fits them,
so that they can use their computers in the
most efficient way.
Whether someone runs windows, macOS, Linux,
OS2, Unix SVR4, minix or whatever,
I noticed that the 3 most popular platforms
have been
You make good sense Vic. A little tolerance goes a long way :)
Diversity is the spice of life. We are not all alike, thank goodness.
Bambi
Vic wrote:
Just my 2 cents, I think everyone should have the
choice to run what os most suitably fits them,
so that they can use their computers in
Is there anyway to use the disk utilities to mount write the bootdisk
to my local hard drive and then use it to launch the installation
from the CD? I have a laptop that can have a CD or it can have a
floppy but it can't have both at the same time and it can't hot swap
between them -neither can
So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot
create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed!
I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle
that. It can only boot from disk or hd.
Make sure that the cd is in the drive and then
Hazel Norman Teferle wrote:
So far I have tried the CD only. When using the PCPLUS cd-rom i cannot
create a boot disk, I get the message LoadLibrary16 failed!
I have tried to set the bios to boot from CD, but my bios doesnt handle
I had exactly the same prob. with the PCPlus CD,
I
Thanks to Paul and Alan.
I have managed to create a boot disk with rawrite. I can now also boot from
the cdrom and get into the DrakX installation program were I encounter my
next dilemma.
What to do in the Setup Filesystems menu?
Do I say OK when DrakX needs to resize my Windows partition? or
Hi there,
I would really appreciate if someone could
help me installing Linux for Windows of the
latest PCPLUS CD-rom.
I have a Dell Dimension, 450 MHz, 256Mb Ram,
Toshiba DVD-ROM, 1 year old.
I got to the point where after running
install.bat
and setup.bat I have to reboot my pc to start
Are you booting from the CD, or using a boot disk? Apparently there are
problems when booting from the CD.
-Original Message-
From: Hazel Norman Teferle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 April 2000 22:33
To: newbie newsgroup
Subject: [newbie] Linux for Windows Installation Help
At 23:13 02/04/00 , you wrote:
Are you booting from the CD, or using a boot disk? Apparently there are
problems when booting from the CD.
See http://www.pcplus.co.uk/discs/
Ken Rodgers
Can you ping localhost (127.0.0.1)? Can you ping your eth0 card
address? If you can, then try rebooting the Win system. I found
that when I first setup the ethernet card, my win system had to be
rebooted in order to see it. Don't know why, and don't have to do
it anymore.
Curtis Lloyd wrote:
Hi, All
I am having trouble getting my Linux and windows machine to "see" each
other on a network. I have done everything that has come to mind. Tried
pinging..nothing! Any ideas would be appreciated!
thanks,
Curtis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ripcrd6 wrote:
I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here
at
work I started setting up during lunch.
This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two
machines
are a 100% Mandrake
I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here at
work I started setting up during lunch.
This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two machines
are a 100% Mandrake box and a Windows 95 box that may later be dual boot or
100% Linux. I'm following
Ripcrd6 wrote:
I finally started working on networking my machines. I have one here at
work I started setting up during lunch.
This PC will be a dual boot Windows 95 and Mu Linux, the other two machines
are a 100% Mandrake box and a Windows 95 box that may later be dual boot or
100%
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You'll probably need NetBEUI on the clients if you're going to be
running Samba on the Linux server. If you're not interested in Samba,
you could stick with straight TCP/IP for all machines.
How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT
From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How so? Samba doesn't replace NetBEUI, it replaces a WinNT server.
The
You mean require?
Either, actually--it almost sounded like you were saying that Samba was
netbeui, or some such thing.
My apologies. I've been dealing with NetBEUI/TCP/IP
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