UBUNTU

[TechBoyJK]

Just got the 3 Distro package (PC, PC-64, Mac) and popped in the LIVE cd for PC on an old K6-400 with 128MB ram... No problems, i put it in, hit a few buttons, and whala, im at the ubuntu desktop... all i did was setup the network config, opened up a term serv session to my windows 2000 server box, opened up, HAHAHA, Microsoft IE, and am using this method to post this...

I likey!

 

[pkme2]

Ubuntu Live CD does things like that. Hence a lot of newbies seem to find it very user friendly.

In your case, enjoy Ubuntu.

 

[scottws]

Yeah, I did that once. I popped in a Hoary Hedgehog live CD in at school. Amazingly they hadn't changed the boot order.

Remote Desktop seemed a lot slower Linux->Windows than it does Windows->Windows.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

yay ubuntu rock. be sure to register at ubuntu forums for free support that far far far suppases anything M$ could offer. see ya/.

 

[Brazen]

Why don't you just open Firefox in Ubuntu and post from that? Or do you like getting malware through IE on your Windows server?

 

[Kappo]

Originally posted by: Brazen
Why don't you just open Firefox in Ubuntu and post from that? Or do you like getting malware through IE on your Windows server?

While I wont surf from a real server, Im pretty sure you would need to visit certain sites. Despite what people lead you to believe, malware doesnt go "OOoOO! Someone's using IE! Goto THAT computer!". 😉

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Kappo

Originally posted by: Brazen
Why don't you just open Firefox in Ubuntu and post from that? Or do you like getting malware through IE on your Windows server?

While I wont surf from a real server, Im pretty sure you would need to visit certain sites. Despite what people lead you to believe, malware doesnt go "OOoOO! Someone's using IE! Goto THAT computer!". 😉

Except real servers get hacked. Also real servers have links to other things.. Also if you use a search engine at all to look for new websites you can't aways tell what your clicking on.

For example a fully up to date windows XP box used by my roomate. Looking up lottery information clicked on a link from google called 'Nebraska Lottery'. IE was instantly highjacked and immediately afterward most popular search engines all returned links on a specific 'buy this software to remove spyware' website as well as other completely borked behaviors.

I know this because I was in the room next to her when she said 'I clicked on this Nebraska Lottery link and now google is weird'.

I spent hours and used all sorts of anti-virus items and all the popular anti-spyware utilities and they would then all find stuff, but never got all of it and it would return shortly there after.

So yes. Simply using IE is a threat to your computer. If your carefull it just reduces the likelihood and does not actually solves the problem.

That being said remote desktop in Linux is a nice solution to migrating business workers away from Windows. For the occasional website or document that is not compatable with Linux tools you simply setup a Windows box that they can log into and use IE or Word.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Kappo

Originally posted by: Brazen
Why don't you just open Firefox in Ubuntu and post from that? Or do you like getting malware through IE on your Windows server?

While I wont surf from a real server, Im pretty sure you would need to visit certain sites. Despite what people lead you to believe, malware doesnt go "OOoOO! Someone's using IE! Goto THAT computer!". 😉

Regardless, why go through the hassle of termserving into a Windows box and blah blah blah, when he could just fire up Firefox on his local pc. I'm using Firefox in Fedora right now, so I know it works. Unless he was just doing it for a proof-of-concept, but even still, with IE's horrific security record, browsing from a server is one heck of a risky proof-of-concept.

 

[TechBoyJK]

yea, i was just doing it to do it... i know i can use firefox to browse in linux, etc...

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Yeah I always carry around an Ubuntu livecd in my bookbag among three other distros. Its my second favorite distro, so easy to use and so much stuff in there.

 

[drag]

Another version of Linux that may be handy is damn small linux.

They sell DSL on USB pens, which aren't too expensive (or you can dowload it). You can boot up directly from the usb key and another were you can run DSL in a Quemu virtual machine from inside a running Windows box, depending what version your using.

You got 256megs keychain with 50 megs of operating system. Great for older hardware also.

 

[nweaver]

I've never seen a problem with rdesktop linux -> windows. In fact, I did a -f and several people thought I was just running windows locally on my laptop.