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[Girish]

Dear all ,

Thank you for your contribution.

I am a homeuser when it comes to Linux but I like to play around with the
different distros that I can get my hand on. I use Linux to give my old
hardware a lease of life and also because it's fun and I keep leaning
things.

That being said I now use the system mainly for surfing and watching
videos. I used to program but since I no longer work in IT i've lost touch
with programming.

Trying to get back on the horse though is proving to be harder than I
thought. Having lost almost all of my java skills.

Still great to have you guys around at least now I know I can aim at
something and open my java book again...
I

On 29 September 2016 at 20:48, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu is a pretty safe bet for a home user,  while at the same time
> providing being user friendly and having a large enough community.
>
> here's a trick to security,  remember when you used to write essays for gp
> when you were at school?  the more words you wrote,  the more probability
> of errors/flaw you encounter.
>
> simmilarly disabling stuffs you dont need will harden your system (note
> disabling stuffs randomly isn't a good thing too,  investigating abt it
> then reading the docs is a good way to do it).
>
> and like ajay pointed it out,  applying security patches helps.
>
> one particular thing you need to be aware of when using any system whether
> windows,  linux or bsd,  is that whatever foreign input you receive uses a
> potentially vulnerable library,  unless you decide to go and have look
> inside each of these,  sticking to recommended strategies to secure your
> system is the easiest way out.
>
> now,  you may have the most secure system on earth,  but if you do not
> understand what you are doing with it or how you organize your
> infrastructure around it,  it is still an insecure system.
>
> to start try,  playing with netstat,  iptables,  chmod and ps. those are
> just basic stuffs,  but you will start having an idea of what is going on
> in your system and will start the ask questioning process in your head.
>
> besides,  Mauritius is small,  meeting up in real life or hanging out on
> irc will help, but only if you dare to ask questions rather than hide
> behind ego like some people do.
>
>
> there is always that balance between usability and security that you need
> to always consider.  i'd like to recommend you to follow us,  but that wud
> be spam.
>
> as for a split,  this thread isnt really the place for this talk, people
> didnt like the way things were going, they left,  but thats on an
> individual level,  i myself haven't left.  even though i may have diverging
> opinions about how things were going.
>
> i hope i have answered your question. writing from a phone,  so plz
> disregard typos.
>
> sincerely
> selven (a|t)  hackers.mu
>
> On 29 Sep 2016 16:06, "Girish" <girish3430 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So what's the safest Linux distro then please? Having used Ubuntu and
> Linux  Mint which is based on Ubuntu.
>
> I wonder if a software like Kali Linus would be better or Fedora?
>
> Linux in a way is so fragmented so it's difficult to choose.
>
> Thanks your answers
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 29 Sep 2016, at 17:08, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Palm Tree <timeofsands at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Is this mailing list still active?
> > It depends on what you mean by active :)
> >
> > The few people who were active left LUGM and started improving &
> > advocating Linux within a different group.  Searching the archives of
> > LUGM will reveal why active people left. I wanted to write a blog post
> > about what went wrong, and try to put events into a timeline. However,
> > this proved harder than I thought.
> >
> > Ajay, would you like to collaborate on what led to the split of the
> > Linux community in Mauritius to balance the article ?
> >
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