[CALUG] Win XP End of Life

[James Ewing Cottrell III]

....is resistant to viruses and hackers...

JIM

On 3/30/2014 9:54 PM, Stuart wrote:
> Agree we should add hacker resistant. But don't let's make it too long or geekish. We are trying to generate interest from the general public for our presentations and and disk distribution.
> Stuart
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 30, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Randal T. Rioux <randy at procyonlabs.com> wrote:
>>> "Ubuntu is a virus and hacker resistant operating system"
>>>
>>> Careful there, cowboy.
>>
>> I'd re-phrase ...
>>
>> Ubuntu (and GNU/LInux), as an end-user desktop, is a 'virus and hacker
>> resistant' (greatly reduced attack vectors) operating system.
>>
>> In more detail ...
>>
>> GNU/Linux platform includes Internet clients (e.g., mail, web,
>> etc...), office suite and various applications and services that are
>> are never designed with features or automation at the expense of
>> security, and are updated with all other operating system components.
>>
>> Other operating systems do not treat their clients, their office suite
>> and many other applications and services are primary security threats,
>> and often expense security at the hands of expected features and
>> automation.  Some components in these platforms were never designed
>> for systems connected to the Internet.
>>
>> -- bjs
>>
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