Re: Windows vulnerability vs Linux vulnerability [Re: Would a firewall prevent Sasser worm?]

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Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 03:11:00 GMT

In comp.security.misc Leythos <void@nowhere.com> wrote:
> In article <c7f3h1$mf01@cliff.xsj.xilinx.com>, "Jörn W. Janneck"
> <jwjanneck at yahoo dot com> says...
>> since, surely, nobody in their right mind wants to spend that amount of
>> money for something that they could replace for free, now would they. (on
>> amazon: xp pro 179 to 269 + office 124 to 419 + outlook 86 + nav 59 +
>> quickbooks 139 to 289 = 587 to 1122, and that's USD) but i am sure that
>> there is some feature in, what was it, quickbooks, that is not in gnucash,
>> and that just happens to be absolutely essential to this "mother-in-law."
>> and if it's just the ability to read quickbook files.
>
> Well, lets take a look at this - since we're talking about people that
> are doing it on their own, we're talking about people that must know
> enough to purchase OEM copies instead of retail. Heck, if they know
> enough to find/download/install Mandrake and Open Office and then find
> GNUCash and install/import they know enough to get OEM.
>
> Windows XP Prof OEM: $140
> Office 2003 SBE (Access, Word, Excel, Publisher, Outlook) $241
> Total cost $381
>
> Open Source:
> Time to find Mandrake 10 Beta 15 minutes
> Time to download - 2 streams 4 hours each - 8 hours total 3 ISO images
> Burn to CD - 4 minutes each
> Wipe computer you just downloaded from - 15 minutes
> Install Mandrake 10 - Guessing 1 hours for first time?
> Install Open Office - Guessing 15 minutes first time?
> Get Travan 40 tape drive working - 2 hours
> Restore backup of data - nope, used Tapeware for backup
> Find Tapeware for nix - download it
> Figure out how to install it - 30 minutes
> Restore backup of data - Yea, (no time since it would be the same on a
> Windows box)
> Find GNUCash - 15 minutes
> Install GNUCash - 15 minutes
> Restore QuickBooks backup file - not sure if we could
> Relearn office tasks - about 30 minutes over the week.

Hmmmm.... you're willing to go out and find OEM versions of MS
software, but can't just buy a Linux distribution? Buy SuSE,
Mandrake, or even RedHat, and you don't have to find squat. Pop in
the CDs and install -- very user friendly, and they all include
OpenOffice and GNUCash. And you're still a pile of cash ahead of the
game, if money is a concern... 

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