>JeffM wrote: >>If you see Puppy mentioned, forget that >>as it is a poor choice with a lack of security similar to Win9x. >> Robert Kaiser wrote: >OTOH, it's a distro that comes with SeaMonkey >as the default browser and mail application, > 8-) Yup, *that* part is good.
...then again, the distro that I like to point to for Win9x sufferers is also friendly to this community. http://google.com/search?q=antiX+IceApe+%22+default.browser%22&hl=all (IceApe is, of course, Debian's unbranded version of SM.) ...and if *getting SeaMonkey* is the first thing you do with your amazing new Linux Package Manager, that is a doubleplus good experience for a Linux n00b. (Get great software with near-zero effort; ...and you can _use_ the computer while installing an app and don't have to reboot to get it to take.) >so I'd rather not diss them too much. :) > ...but, you can easily find uncounted examples in any Win9x forum, of the problems with an OS where there aren't separated privileges (you're *always* a superuser) and how the OS has been easily damaged: "I was cleaning up my system and now an error message says _____.DLL is missing". If a newbie can do damage without any prompt that what he is doing is dangerous, he gets a fowl impression of "Linux" --because Puppy is a poor implementation of Linux. Again, with Puppy, it's too easy for a n00b to get a bad impression when one of the selling points of a proper Linux distro is that that kind of crap doesn't happen. Now, if someone absolutely MUST have Puppy, there is **one** extant version which has proper userlevels (i.e. you're **not** always running as root). http://google.com/search?q=PuppyLinux+MultiUser&hl=all You *won't*, however, spot that one when you go thru the front door of any Puppy site. 8-( ...and running *any* Puppy from **non-writable** media is OK as the OS can't get borked that way. As soon as you *install* Puppy, however, (any except the one exemplar), Puppy becomes vulnerable. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
