[softwarelist] Re: Another Windows horror story

Quoting David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In message <476FA83E.4000304@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Philco <philco@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> writes
> >> Hard to believe that it is now over ten years since Acorn were 
> >>working  on their own network computer.
> >Was that 'twenty years'
> 
> The Archimedes came out at the end of 1987, the Acorn NC was 1997.
> 
> >We'd have still had the hacks on RiscOs I guess..
> 
> Anything subjected to the attacks that MS software is would be broken, 
> but MS are a special case, they're rich enough to get things right. 
> Looking at some of the guidance they offer programmers it is apparent 
> they've gone a long time without using the simplest good practices.
> 
> If Acorn had kept RISC OS in ROM it would have been difficult to hack.
> 
> RISC OS needed to be transformed the same way that the Windows 9X line 
> was, or Mac OS - into a "proper" operating system with the protection 
> that implies.
> 
> Leaves me wondering is there a solution that satisfies my requirements - 
> web, email, word processing, no messing about?
> 
> The "One Lap Top per child" machine sounds a bit like it, but last time 
> I looked was not on sale in the first world. Possibly a mobile phone 
> would do ;-)
> 
> 
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> David Pilling
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> 
> 
Hi,

May I suggest that Linux will do all you want and with much safer but competent 
browsing.

Best wishes for the New Year to all.
Berni.

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