Have a nice day, Scott Berry E-mail: N7zib@xxxxxxxxxxx Well there can be a number of things that can cause your Ubuntu or Grml distro not to work. The bigest one that comesto my mind is hardware. Even though since I started using Linux in late 1999 as a fool around machine I have seen some great improvements in a lot of areas including the Ubuntu distro and Grml. However, some times you can still have a device which misbehaves or does not get probed properly. Probing in a Linux term means looking for. now I am assuming it's probably a monitor thing where your monitor is not getting detected correctly. This is the most common error I have seen myself and others please chime in with other ideas. The other things I have seen though is for instance the cd won't run or the Dvd won't run and a rare ocasion on one machine of mine i had actually seen it not go to the hard disk and that's probably because it wasn't big enough. Hopefully this answers a few questions for you. II would also take the opportunity to tell you that if you like messing around and making changes with in your environment Linux is wonderful for that and I happen to like to tweakmy systems. Your other questions about viruses! Now people may really disagree with me but that's quite alright that's why they say different strokes for different folks. But no Linux is not suseptible to a lot of viruses at all. However, to cover your behind I actually believe it is best to have an antivirus program. One such program is called fprot and can be ran as a cron. Please don't ask me to explain cron! Grin! Actually cron is similar to Task Scheduler but it's like 50 times as powerful. I do not use cron directly because my syntax for cron is lousy and I just can't get the syntax down. So I cheat if you want to call it that by using Webmin which is found at: www.webmin.org Webmins is a web based administration piece of software. if you do decide to get Webmin lock it down through an ip lock which basically means that you have only one ip address which can access the machine with Webmin. Webmin will work on Windows or anything because it is php based I believe. Well I'll shush for now and give the old Orca and Speakup voices a break. You know meso any questions let me know by Msn. On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:29 -0500, Josh wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know why oralux and grml1.1 work, but grml 2008.11 and ubuntu > 8.10 do not work on my computer? Why do some Linux distributions work, but > others do not? > or is there no definite answer to this? Also, how frequently or how > susceptible is Linux to getting viruses and rootkits and trogens and worms? > > Josh > > email: jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx > msn: kenn6498ku@xxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list