[jambutty]

Much obliged for your Linux CD information Cyfr. I assume that I can get this CD from ubuntu.

I’m going to have give it a whirl. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

In my ignorance and in light of all the nasty things whizzing around the Internet I’ve often wondered why someone hasn’t come up with a bootable CD or now DVD that holds the OS. I mean you cannot overwrite files nor add files to a closed CD/DVD so nothing nasty could infect it.

Getting OS updates would be a bit of pain but as Linux is free I can put up with a bit of pain.

Years ago when me and my A1200 Amiga were crawling around the Internet courtesy of a 30 something K modem I put the Amiga Workbench 2.0 installed on my hard drive onto a CD and booted from that. It worked OK up to a point – I couldn’t store my emails.

I still think that you would need a good firewall though because too many programmes like to ‘chat’ to their ‘head office’ when you launch them and then there is all the rubbish that you can pick up whilst surfing around.

I’ve got a million questions but I’ll leave them for another time, once I’ve got the CD and had a pay around.

Thanks again Cyfr.