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After bouncing back and forth between multiple distros (mandriva, slackware, debian, fedora), I finally dumped my Windows partition for good. Starting today, on my computer Windows exists only as a virtual machine in VBox.
And it was mostly thanks to all the great help I've been given at LinuxQuestions.org, and here in the slack forum in particular. Couldn't have gotten close to where I am without you guys. Thanks!
Windows-free? Please dump the Windows inside virtualbox first.
By the way, it is just not possible to dump Windows completely in China, because most of the network services (especially all the online banking system) require us to install some windows-only plugins. Saying that it is more secure with their various plugins. Isn't https secure enough for online banking?
Windows-free? Please dump the Windows inside virtualbox first.
By the way, it is just not possible to dump Windows completely in China, because most of the network services (especially all the online banking system) require us to install some windows-only plugins. Saying that it is more secure with their various plugins. Isn't https secure enough for online banking?
Agreed.
HTTPS is not that secure, but then I doubt those plugins running on Window$ are secure either.
I've still got XP Pro on my laptop, but haven't booted into it for ages. For all I know, it might have died from neglect. And it's definitely going when the next Slack comes out (13.2 or 14.0?). I've dumped XP from VirtualBox too.
After bouncing back and forth between multiple distros (mandriva, slackware, debian, fedora), I finally dumped my Windows partition for good. Starting today, on my computer Windows exists only as a virtual machine in VBox.
Oops! Not Windows free yet.
HeHe, made the same claim not to long ago when I finally got my daughter to put Linux on her laptop, Slackware of course.
I have one Windows 7 and two Windows XP machines setup in VirtualBox. One of those XP machines is a clone of my daughter's laptop. Having Windows around helps me stay up to date on things in Windows land. Besides there is something cool about running Windows in Slackware.
By the way, it is just not possible to dump Windows completely in China, because most of the network services (especially all the online banking system) require us to install some windows-only plugins. Saying that it is more secure with their various plugins. Isn't https secure enough for online banking?
I guess the default there is IE, since I went there and visited a netcafe, the only thing available for browsing WAS IE . What made matters worse, it wasn't even kept up to date, and had a hard time browsing LQ, let alone any other site (also because the connection was terrible).
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. What made matters worse, it wasn't even kept up to date, and had a hard time browsing LQ, let alone any other site (also because the connection was terrible).
