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Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 07/13/07 05:04
On 2007-07-12, SpaceGirl wrote:
> On Jul 11, 10:14 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 2007-07-11, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>
>> > I have a good friend who asked me to come out and take a look at her
>> > daughter's computer because it was really slow. Spybot Search and Destroy
>> > came up with 1,401 malware programs and/or tracking cookies. The anti-
>> > virus came up with 89 viruses and trojans. I got everything cleaned up,
>> > installed a Hosts manager, Firefox and Opera (default). Then I told them
>> > that IE was off limits.
>>
>> > Three days to fix this. Scarey.
>>
>> You could have installed GNU/Linux in a couple of hours or less.
>
> Have you even the slightest clue of how kids actually use machines?
Yes. My grandaughter has been using GNU/Linux for years. She
doesn't have Widoes on her computer.
> A linux machine would be pretty much the least ideal platform, given
> the lack of proper flash, games etc.
It does have flash 9; it does have games.
> I think the very first time she realises she can no longer use her
> bebo or myspace or youtube pages she'd be back on Windows.
I don't know what bebo is, but the others can be used just as well
with Linux.
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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