Appalbarry writes:
"Microsoft is about to abandon Windows XP to the wolves. Fair enough it's ancient. However, there are still going to be a lot of XP boxes out there, and a fair number of them are unlikely to ever get upgraded until the hardware dies.
My question is: what's available to help make this old OS stay reasonably secure and safe for the people who can't or won't abandon it?
Over the years I've been through Central Point Antivirus, Norton, McAfee, AVG, stuff like Zone Alarm, and of course the various Microsoft anti-malware offerings. But since moving over to Linux I really haven't kept up on the wild and wonderful world of Windows security tools.
Suggestions?"
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday March 06 2014, @02:22PM
lentilla (1770) wrote:
Excellent point. That's exactly where I'm at.
At the moment, running in a VM is not an option on my current system. Don't have the compute power or memory to handle it. I'm in the market for a new box and will definitely keep this in mind.
Makes sense to me.... thanks for summing it up so succinctly.
Duly noted! Thanks for the feedback. I guess my hangup is finding a distro that has some staying power (e.g. no gratuitous UI changes), and that is supported on whatever new box I get.
I'm leaning towards a laptop and am open to hearing people's experiences with running Linux on their system. I've heard various things about driver support, especially with respect to video AMD vs NVidia.
Wit is intellect, dancing.