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On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:49:09 -0400
"Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 18:40:04 -0400, Bernd Paysan
> <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > We bought an Eee PC from Asus with pre-installed Ubuntu
> 
> ...
> 
> > Now you can feel stupid again, Rod for once is right (he rarely
> > is): The popular distributions *do* work for clueless newbies.
> > Clueless newbies don't have to unlearn habits.
> >
> 
> Whenever I report things, I always find other people who experienced
> the same. This isn't the first newsgroup where I've mentioned similar
> issues, usually in reply to someone else who posted their almost
> identical issues first.
> 
> So, comparing a pre-installed, optimized Linux, which was customized
> to the specialty hardware of a netbook, to an install it yourself
> Linux distro on a normal x86 PC is the same type of comparison? ...
> That would seem to be comparing apples to oranges to me.
> 
> This version of Linux worked when I installed it.  However, it had
> both TCP and UDP ports open on the internet, services exposed to the
> internet, printer sharing through the internet enabled

Ahahahahhahah what distro are you talking about? Desktop distro has
enabled services opened to internet? Weird.