[CS-FSLUG] Linux Conversion Experience

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:

> I have a friend in the Lord who has asked my help with his computer on
> several occasions. Someone simply gave him one, and it is his first one to
> actually own. It ran XP on some decent but cheap hardware. My first look at
> it found the thing loaded with viruses and spyware. Got it clean, but there
> were other flaws. His nice Audigy soundcard died, but the onboard sound
> wasn't so bad. However, most of the time I spent helping him clean up
> infestations of junk.
>
> This last time around he got hold of something which is probably based in a
> rootkit or some other hiding technique. Using the best cleanup software, the
> main bulk of the stuff would be removed, but after going online for a short
> time, it would regenerate. When I explained the only better answer was
> paying money for more expert service, he asked if I had trouble with
> viruses.
>
> "Well, of course not. I run Linux" He asked what that was, and I showed him
> Kubuntu from the CD on his own machine. He decided that was easy enough, and
> asked me to do a Linux conversion. We still have his product key if it
> doesn't work out, but I'm now installing openSUSE 11.0 because it had better
> drivers for this particular eMachine -- at least, the hardware worked better
> out of the box. I'm going to setup all the extra goodies he as come to
> expect.
>
> I'm praying he understand and learn to like the freedom.


Congrats on finding someone brave enough to take the jump! I forced it on my
inlaws due to license issues with a PC they were provided by a closing
business. That and I didn't want to support Windows and I'm the main line of
support.

JSR/

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