From: "Geo" 

Download Knoppix, boot the CD and you can see if it detects all her
hardware without messing up the current install. If it does and if she
likes the included office suite, then pick the install to HD option and
poof it's up and running.

Put it behind a NAT DSL router and you're all set.

Geo.

"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.
>
> But how's that security by default? Should I install a firewall and/or a
> virus scanner, or do they come in the default installation? Ports open or
> closed by default? Everything needs to be as automatic as possible,
because
> I don't want to study that stuff much nor do I want to drive at her place
> every day.
>
> TIA,
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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