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if you are interested in java =)  lucene core can use some help.  pm me off
the list if you want to get a point to start on that.

On 29 Sep 2016 18:58, "Girish" <girish3430 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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