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to: Robert Comer
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2005-01-31 16:23:18
subject: Re: Setting up Linux for a `n00b`

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Alrighty, thanks! That sounds like a good enough solution.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:41fe3bf9{at}w3.nls.net...
> There's an option in the Mandrake install that enables a pretty decent
> firewall.  (It's one of the very first screens if I remember correctly.)
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in message
> news:41fdddc7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Hiya,
>>
>>
>> my cousin has an old computer in which she's running an unlicensed
>> ("borrowed") copy of W2k, and I'm thinking of installing
Linux on it -
>> she only needs to use a word processor and browse the net, so I think
>> she'd do well enough with Mandrake or similar "easy"
release once it's
>> installed.
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