Getting to F18

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Surely you're not serious?  Do you really think people bother to do so?
>> Most don't, even less would know that they should.  That's evidenced by
>> the massive numbers of infected computers.

Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. sent:
> I should have clarified: I meant that most people who use Linux aren't 
> as naive as the Windows community...and THOSE are the ones who wouldn't 
> go about clicking on things all willy-nilly!

I think you have to remember that we're getting more and more Windows
users using Linux, too, these days.  Not because they're computer geeks
who want something more suited to their hacking (I mean that in the good
experimental use of the term), but because they're after something free,
cheap, or just to play with for the hell of it.  In my opinion, that's
what made Ubuntu take off, it's aimed at the Windows user with the
Windows mindset (mostly working out of the box, don't care about being
un-free, click on everything until it works...).

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 13:26:04 UTC 2012 x86_64

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