8.04 still a fine version

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, April 07, 2010 03:40 PM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> <snip>
>> I am not a security expert either but what makes Linux 99.9999% more
>> secure than the "other" [ugh!] is that to do any damage to the system
>> one has to execute a program as ROOT - this is what the OP really meant
>> by the reference to 'password and name'. If some malware does get thru
>> and somehow gets activated then the only damage it may be able to do is
>> only to whatever is the user's HOME directory; want to do anything
>> outside your own HOME directory you need become root (using sudo for
>> example) and then also provide a password.
>>
>> BC
>>
>
> Personally, I think that personal data is a lot more important than
> system files. system files can be replaced easily.
>

Oh yeah, we need a desktop mentality here, not a server mentality eh?