Linux desktops in the Office?

bbigford

@BBigford Mint. We did it! (Only 7 users tho.)

I saw in an older post of yours I believe, you are using Samba4 for your file share, no central directory. Right?

travisdh1

@travisdh1 said:

@BBigford Mint. We did it! (Only 7 users tho.)

I saw in an older post of yours I believe, you are using Samba4 for your file share, no central directory. Right?

Right.

bbigford

@travisdh1 said:

@BBigford said:

@travisdh1 said:

@BBigford Mint. We did it! (Only 7 users tho.)

I saw in an older post of yours I believe, you are using Samba4 for your file share, no central directory. Right?

Right.

What are you doing for email?

Dashrender

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

scottalanmiller

Good choices generally are...

Mint
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
Fedora

In that order. Zorin is supposed to be really good, too.

bbigford

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Are you talking about their site getting compromised?

travisdh1

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Mint hack? I've heard of a number of security problems with open source things, but completely missed the Mint one. Got any handy reference?

bbigford

@scottalanmiller said:

Good choices generally are...

Mint

OpenSuse Tumbleweed

Fedora

In that order. Zorin is supposed to be really good, too.

I've heard great things about Zorin. Have yet to jump on and try it though.

Dashrender

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Mint hack? I've heard of a number of security problems with open source things, but completely missed the Mint one. Got any handy reference?

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

bbigford

@Dashrender said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Mint hack? I've heard of a number of security problems with open source things, but completely missed the Mint one. Got any handy reference?

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

Yeah I saw that one. Compromised the site then uploaded the hacked ISO. Yeesh.

scottalanmiller

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Mint hack? I've heard of a number of security problems with open source things, but completely missed the Mint one. Got any handy reference?

It wasn't an OS issue. It was just a download issue.