A friend has purchased a new Acer Aspire All-in-One which came with M$7 installed.
She is anxious to try Kubuntu but also anxious not to void the new machine's guarantee by mucking about with disc partitions, initially at least!
So, I've helped her by removing all the proprietry "Crap", Pop-ups, and redundant junk, and installing MSE etc.etc. and then I've installed Kubuntu 11.10 for her via Wubi.
All went well, the re-boot gave the 2 boot options : Win7 or Kubuntu as expected. Kubuntu loaded first time, updated etc. and appears to be kosher.
The question is this ; Because Kubuntu loads a linux kernel and her system sits behind a router, is it as secure as a "simple" Kubuntu box? Or does the presence of the M$ files still provide dangers even though Win7 is not running. The Kubuntu system is "installed" on the M$ C:\ drive as any othe "program" would be and presumably uses the NTFS file structure (I haven't investigated). Hopefully this is only a temporary situation, but security is paramount!
She is anxious to try Kubuntu but also anxious not to void the new machine's guarantee by mucking about with disc partitions, initially at least!
So, I've helped her by removing all the proprietry "Crap", Pop-ups, and redundant junk, and installing MSE etc.etc. and then I've installed Kubuntu 11.10 for her via Wubi.
All went well, the re-boot gave the 2 boot options : Win7 or Kubuntu as expected. Kubuntu loaded first time, updated etc. and appears to be kosher.
The question is this ; Because Kubuntu loads a linux kernel and her system sits behind a router, is it as secure as a "simple" Kubuntu box? Or does the presence of the M$ files still provide dangers even though Win7 is not running. The Kubuntu system is "installed" on the M$ C:\ drive as any othe "program" would be and presumably uses the NTFS file structure (I haven't investigated). Hopefully this is only a temporary situation, but security is paramount!
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