The Ubuntu Experiment

[Leif Gregory]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:59:38 -0400
"Steve C. Lamb" <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:

>     Not that I am doing this out of paranoia but on my work laptop
> running XP (which I am allowed to take home) I actually do all my net
> surfing inside a KUbuntu VirtualBox VM.  It isn't because I am
> paranoid and don't want added protection from the wilds of the 'net
> and my professional data but because my personal preference is for
> Linux and putting my idle home-time-on-the-work-laptop browsing in a
> completely separate OS/VM gives decent compartmentalization of work
> vs. non-work activities.  When I turn this laptop in I can either
> take the VM image with me to the new machine or just delete it.  The
> fact that now any malware on the net would have to get past
> adblockplus, bust Firefox, do something malicious on Linux and then
> try to bust out of a VM to get to the real OS is just icing on the
> cake.  ;)

Nice idea. I like that.


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