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From: Mark Warner on 19 May 2010 16:08 Shadow wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Bill Bradshaw wrote: >>> Here is probably a dumb question. Are you saying that I could create a boot >>> CD and watch youtube and hulu without worrying about anything being written >>> to my harddisk? >> Prezackerly. Download the ISO, burn it as an image, and boot to it. >> Assuming a decent amount of memory -- 512MB min, 1024+ recommended -- >> smoon you'll be running a full featured desktop operating system, >> completely fro RAM and the CD drive. (Understand that performance will >> be degraded, due to the speed of the CD drive.) Nothing will be saved or >> written. When you shut down, everything just goes Poof!. > If Mint automatically mounts your "other" drives, with user > permissions, it would be possible for javascript or others to write to > these drives. > I'd just disable harddisk support in the bios (if you have > that option), physically disconnecting harddisk in laptops can be very > unnerving, specially in a dark place, and boot the cd. You will need > the mentioned memory (> 1Gb) for it to work smoothly. In the test drive I took last night, no other drives were mounted. (I had to create a mount point and manually mount one drive I wanted to access.) I suppose anything is /theoretically/ possible, but the chances of there being any kind of harm from browsing the web with a Linux Live CD are infinitesimally small. They're sure a lot smaller than using Windows. -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 19 May 2010 16:13 Art wrote: > "Bill Bradshaw" wrote: >> >> Here is probably a dumb question. Are you saying that I could create a boot >> CD and watch youtube and hulu without worrying about anything being written >> to my harddisk? > > Read this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD > > The hard drives, whether internal or external, are accessible, so it's > likely that malicious code on web sites can damage files and folders > on the drives. Only if they're mounted. There are very few Live CDs that automount connected drives anymore. (Ubuntu used to do it by default a few years ago, but no longer.) And even then, while what you're describing might be /theoretically/ possible, the chances of anything actually happening are next to nothing. > If you want to run from live CD and not worry about > malware, disconnect all hard drives. Same if you run Windows. :-) -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Jeffrey Needle on 19 May 2010 16:23 Art wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 2010 18:37:19 -0400, Mark Warner > <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Based on Ubuntu, Mint comes with a bunch of extras, non-free software, >> and a customized Gnome desktop. > > I downloaded the CD version, and ran it from CD on a machine with just > 512 Meg RAM. Works fine "right out of the box". I also tried it on a > different machine which has only 256 MEG, and also a wireless adapter. > While it struggles along in RAM starvation, I managed to check that I > got a wireless connection ok. Just as with the latest versions of > Ubuntu, it's very impressive (to me anyway) to watch it come up all > automagically without having to worry about driver installs. With > Mint 9 and Firefox I can watch news or youtube videos without having > to install a flash player ... another cool "right out of the box" > feature. > > Art > Will Linux Mint work acceptably using a virtual machine (VMWare) on an HP laptop using the Intel Atom processor with 2 gigs of ram? Ubuntu is having problems with this processor.
From: Mark Warner on 19 May 2010 16:28 Jeffrey Needle wrote: > > Will Linux Mint work acceptably using a virtual machine (VMWare) on an > HP laptop using the Intel Atom processor with 2 gigs of ram? Ubuntu is > having problems with this processor. Since Mint is Ubuntu at its core, you may experience similar difficulties. Are you trying the latest version of Ubuntu? Best advise I could give is to give it a spin and see. It's not like it's a difficult process. -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Jeffrey Needle on 19 May 2010 16:38
Mark Warner wrote: > Jeffrey Needle wrote: >> >> Will Linux Mint work acceptably using a virtual machine (VMWare) on an >> HP laptop using the Intel Atom processor with 2 gigs of ram? Ubuntu is >> having problems with this processor. > > Since Mint is Ubuntu at its core, you may experience similar > difficulties. Are you trying the latest version of Ubuntu? Best advise I > could give is to give it a spin and see. It's not like it's a difficult > process. > I'll do it. Looking at the Linux Mint download page, there are options to download the I286 version or the amd version. I think I need the i286 version for my WinXP-based netbook. Is this correct? Thanks! |