[wellylug] A little project.... : The pragmatic approach

[Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills]

At 15:56 20-07-02 -0700, Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow at compuserve.com> wrote:
...
>Has anyone given thought to security on these machines?  Yes, I've read 
>there are fewer viruses for GNU/Linux, too but that's by far not the 
>only concern.
...

>Who will these people get to maintain their computers?  Bright teenage 
>children of one of the workers ("I think it's wonderful he wants to help 
>out")?  What will those teenagers do (besides be handed the root 
>password so they can fix things)?  Are we prepared to unravel scrambled 
>configurations commited by well meaning but naive volunteer computer 
>"experts"?
...

As I said we'd have to provide a support team, there's no way they could
support these systems themselves nor afford to pay for support.

Firewalls etc don't seem to be essentual on machines using dialup
connections (maybe nice, but no essentual), but virus checkers and regular
updates would be needed.

I'd be happy to help, I do that sort of support anyway or a few
organisations (for little or nothing), but my Linux skills need a bit of
work first!

I'd vote (if this were that sort of organisation :-) to proceed with some
work towards such low-end systems, as there are a lot of places they would
be really useful even if this specific project doesn't go ahead.

--- Tony


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