On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 15:43, Eben King wrote:
>
>> The machine has Windows 98 (SE most likely) on it now. While that's
>> suffered remarkably little bit-rot (as far as Windows goes), I'd like
>> something
>>
>> - less buggy
>> - remotely administrable
>> - pretty well virus proof
>> - approaching modern
>> - that I have respect for
>> - that probably won't run the crap others bring to it
>
> I guess that rules out FreeBSD and OpenBSD without X windows?
Yup. No chance of getting her to use a CLI. Even a WIMP interface tests my
patience.
Actually, *ix sans X may meet those requirements; on a modern distro you
don't _have_ to have a GUI...
-- -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81Hi! I'm a .sig virus! Copy me to your .sig!
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