<VV> other thoughts - off topic

[Joel Rushworth]

I think if you have the knowledge to install and run Linux distros and understand that VM = Virtual Machine then you'll probably be OK continuing to run XP and fiddle with binaries.
 
If on the other hand, you have no idea what any of the above is referring to, it's time to take your XP machine out behind the woodshed and put it out of it's misery.
 
Regards,
Joel
 
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 23:26:24 -0700
> From: jaysplace at laserpubs.com
> To: westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> other thoughts - off topic
> 
> On 4/8/2014 8:52 AM, Joel Rushworth wrote:
> > I strongly suspect that there are hackers out there that have been sitting on serious and harmful exploits for XP, just waiting for this day to arrive.
> - I'll admit, that's an - 'interesting' - possibility.
> 
> Mostly, good sanitation goes a long way.
> 
> What do you think about Linux with Wine or one of the variants, for 
> Windows stuff you want to run on the main machine?
> I wonder how much risk Wine brings in - if good binaries can run, what 
> about the bad ones?
> (Wine = "Wine is not emulation" = a system for running Windows software 
> on Linux)
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