From reader WW:
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Mr. Fusion,

I have Windows 10 (and get the developer previews) + win7 on second partition...Fedora Linux 21, UbuntuStudio16, FreeDOS ..on just 1 system. I have a second system (with a 1.8 TFLOP GPGPU set up for HPC Computing over the Ethernet)...and a MAC G5 running Debian Linux and MINIXware.

My primary security issues are with Win7 and Windows 10...none of the lInuxware seems to be bothered (or the macware and ppc64 linuxware)..

Always keep up to date with Microsoft if you possibly can. I do still have an older eMachine running WinXP (for amateur radio systems and telecomm)...but I don't have it fully online that often. There IS a SP4 package for WinXP but it is NOT Microsoft approved..it is from a hacker in Italy (google WinSP4).

Unless you guys are running "big iron" ..just keep Windows on at least one of your boxes. I have old Solaris 10 as well ..but can't really get it up to speed because Oracle slammed the doors on all the freebie Solaris developers Sun had.

Don't get hooked on all their so-called freeware advantages of Linux by the way...their bugs are sometimes worse than Microsoft's viral intruders.

By the way Hobie...I get a virus alert from Avast every time I visit RMN now...email me for more info.

WW

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