Is Ubuntu safe to try

[Tom Adelstein]

On 7/5/05, Mustafa Abbasi <lordverminard at gmail.com> wrote:
> ubutu is great.
>  i started my linux experirance 1 month ago.
>  first i treid fedora 4 then 3. both were bloated and slow.both took 3 hours
> to install.
>  cext i treied ubutu.
>  its easirer faster and heck better looking too.
>  try it.
>  
>  ps. for security you might want to install ubuntu on a second hdd and wirte
> the boot loader 
>  to the second hdd. thats how i first treid out linux without damaging my
> windows partition.
>  now i have been winodws free for 3 whole days.
> 
> 
> On 7/6/05, Nimefurahi <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote: 
> > 
> > Ubuntu is based upon Debian. It is very stable. I find the GUI to be
> > very friendly, as well as (and more importantly) the Ubuntu community. 
> > 
> > A nessus scan on it's potential vulnerabilities, as presented
> > out-of-the-box, shows it to be very secure, much more secure than
> > scores of other distributions with exception perhaps of Trustix. But
> > then, Trustix is not (to my knowledge) based upon Debian. There is much 
> > to be said for "apt-get", Debian, and its derivatives.
> > 
> > I find Ubuntu to be very "human". You may challenge it, but it will not
> > challenge you.
> > 
> > I highly recommend it to you, my friend. 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Nimefurahi
> > 

I don't think you're being fair when you answer Jim's question. 

It's one thing to advocate Linux, it's quite another to say he won't
have to work at it.

In fact, Jim, you will need to work at it a lot. If that scares you
then you hvae two choices: 1) Be afraid and use Ubuntu anyway  2)
Don't use Linux at all and live a life a quiet desperation.

Ubuntu is a nice Linux distribution but some things about it are
definitely broken and you have to work at it to get what you want. I
enjoy that and consider it a challenge. Right now, I'm still fiddling
with the menu to get it to display Crossover office applications.

You have plenty of people helping and lots of documentation in the
forums and mailing lists.

I've seen people log on to other's computers and fix things for free.

That's the commitment of the community. You can't pay for that. Money
can't buy it.