clipka wrote:
> nemesis schrieb:
> 
>> You're kind of paranoid, huh? ;)  You never really used bittorrent?
> 
> No Sir; up until this day and hour, I have managed to stay /far/ away 
> from it. So far that I have not much of an idea what it /really/ 
> actually is.

It's a sophisticated form of FTP, basically. There's nothing inherently 
dangerous about it.

> Because I haven't got the slightest clue about administering Linux, so I 
> decided to not bother about regular updates, firewalls and what-have-you 
> on that box.

Really, OpenSuSE is about as easy to admin as Windows is, for simple stuff, 
if you wanted to. (Altho 11 kind of made the UI for a lot of things a lot 
more confusing than it was for 10. Not that such isn't true of Windows 
either. :-)

> all set up for ease of use in my own local network instead of 
> worrying about security. 

FWIW, the admin tool that comes with SuSE (YaST) makes saying "firewall 
everything incoming from outside the local net" very easy.

Of all the versions of Linux I've used, OpenSuSE has been most friendly in 
terms of admin.  (Even better than Ubuntu in my experience.)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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