8.04 still a fine version

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/07/2010 01:35 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 07/04/10 16:58, Robert Holtzman wrote:
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>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>> On 04/06/2010 07:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>>> 	I am writing this on Thunderbird on my old 8.04 LTS which
>>>>> needed updates, that were a new kernel and some fix on
>>>>> Thunderbird and like that. It works fine and is a fine system
>>>>> to keep working. The others from 8.04 and 10.04 are not as
>>>>> interesting and I will let them die.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> What will you do when security fixes stop coming in, what, a year?
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>>>           Just keep using it. The password and name keeps Linux 1000
>>> times more secure than Windows!
>>>
>>>        
>> I don't pretend to be an authority on security but from what I
>> understand malware can take advantage of holes in applications without
>> having to crack the system password. Anyone want to correct me?
>>
>>      
> 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
>
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         Exactly!

73 Karl


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