Re: [PLUG] kiosk linux desktop?

2012-11-18 Thread Russell Senior
> "CW" == C W writes: CW> A MS Windows PC became zombified, or a GNU/Linux PC became CW> zombified? The zombified box was Windows PC. -- Russell Senior, President russ...@personaltelco.net ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lis

Re: [PLUG] Victor upgraded to Ubuntu 12.something

2012-11-18 Thread C W
I forgot to post this link in the previous post Linux Mint 13 KDE: " http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2090"; On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:06 PM, C W wrote: > Hi Victor, > > Give the live DVD, (or live USB, or SD card) of Linux Mint 13 KDE a try. > It is LTS (Long Term support) with 5 years of suppo

Re: [PLUG] Victor upgraded to Ubuntu 12.something

2012-11-18 Thread C W
Hi Victor, Give the live DVD, (or live USB, or SD card) of Linux Mint 13 KDE a try. It is LTS (Long Term support) with 5 years of support. Linux Mint 13 KDE is what several of my friends & myself, use and love. GNOME fallback mode has just been eliminated from any future versions of GNOME. A lot

Re: [PLUG] kiosk linux desktop?

2012-11-18 Thread C W
A MS Windows PC became zombified, or a GNU/Linux PC became zombified? On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > > We have a node with a desktop machine they had set up as a web-surfing > kiosk, which got zombified (udp port 16471, iirc, some kind of > click-fraud according to ran

[PLUG] kiosk linux desktop?

2012-11-18 Thread Russell Senior
We have a node with a desktop machine they had set up as a web-surfing kiosk, which got zombified (udp port 16471, iirc, some kind of click-fraud according to random google results). I suggested the node host install some kind of read-only live-cd-ish linux desktop image on the box. They said ye