Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?
On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 19:11 +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:54:13 +0100
> Guy Marcenac <guy@posteurs.com> wrote:
>
> > Le 07/03/2014 02:16, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering
> > > moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support.
> > > Normally, I'd
> > >
> > Hello,
> > I don't understand why the lack of support leads you to this huge
> > change for your buddies on these old machines.
> > Support or not they will continue to run, simply MS won't fix any
> > bug... Surely, there is something I did not understand about your
> > needs.
>
> No, they will continue to run fine if kept isolated from any
> contamination via the Net, USB sticks, emails etc.
>
> The point is that security holes won't be fixed. That would be of some
> concern to Linux users, but it's very serious for Windows users, the
> targets of nearly all malware. The marketing hype about 'new operating
> systems' is just that, and Windows 8 contains a great deal of 7, of
> Vista, of XP and probably earlier versions. I haven't checked 8, but
> Win 7 still contains Edlin, an early DOS text *line* editor.
>
> So every month, the security advisories will come out, 'remote code
> execution' flaws will be announced which affect everything from Vista
> onwards, but they won't mention XP. The bad guys will be studying this
> information carefully, and will gain insight into problems which do
> also affect XP but the fixes for which won't be backported... it will
> be a bad time to be an Internet-connected XP user, and there will
> indeed still be a fair number of them. The AV people won't support XP,
> either.
>
> So I'll be wiping XP off my old laptop (actually refitting the original
> 40GB drive, as the 120GB drive which has run for the last eight years
> is showing early signs of dementia) and running only Sid on it.
Depending to the needs, it might be useful to install Linux and to run
XP in a virtual machine. With VBox it's possible to run a Linux desktop
and a XP desktop seamlessly.
Take a look at the link:
http://picpaste.com/linux-jwm-and-windows-xp.png
The above panel is a Linux JWM panel and the below panel is the XP task
bar. XP does run as a guest in a Linux VBox. The upper right window is
the XP file browser and the left lower window is a Linux ROXTerm.
The picpaste link does expire in 7 days.
Regards,
Ralf
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