<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all , <br><br></div>Thank you for your contribution. <br><br></div>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. <br><br></div>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. <br><br></div>Trying to get back on the horse though is proving to be harder than I thought. Having lost almost all of my java skills. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Still great to have you guys around at least now I know I can aim at something and open my java book again...<br></div>I <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 September 2016 at 20:48, selven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcthegreat@gmail.com" target="_blank">pcthegreat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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). <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">and like ajay pointed it out, applying security patches helps. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">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. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">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. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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. <br><br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">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. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">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. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">i hope i have answered your question. writing from a phone, so plz disregard typos. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">sincerely <br>
selven (a|t) <a href="http://hackers.mu" target="_blank">hackers.mu</a> </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Sep 2016 16:06, "Girish" <<a href="mailto:girish3430@gmail.com" target="_blank">girish3430@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So what's the safest Linux distro then please? Having used Ubuntu and Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu.<br>
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I wonder if a software like Kali Linus would be better or Fedora?<br>
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Linux in a way is so fragmented so it's difficult to choose.<br>
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Thanks your answers<br>
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Sent from my iPhone<br>
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> On 29 Sep 2016, at 17:08, Loganaden Velvindron <<a href="mailto:loganaden@gmail.com" target="_blank">loganaden@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Palm Tree <<a href="mailto:timeofsands@gmail.com" target="_blank">timeofsands@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Is this mailing list still active?<br>
> It depends on what you mean by active :)<br>
><br>
> The few people who were active left LUGM and started improving &<br>
> advocating Linux within a different group. Searching the archives of<br>
> LUGM will reveal why active people left. I wanted to write a blog post<br>
> about what went wrong, and try to put events into a timeline. However,<br>
> this proved harder than I thought.<br>
><br>
> Ajay, would you like to collaborate on what led to the split of the<br>
> Linux community in Mauritius to balance the article ?<br>
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