[TriLUG] Linux Mint Site Hacked

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

I think Mint will remain my recommendation.  I consider this incident
pretty isolated and I have a hard time putting another distro above mint
for people making the switch from Windows.

Ken

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Thomas Delrue via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

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> On 02/25/2016 11:03 AM, Erik Nelson via TriLUG wrote:
> > I understand the audience Mint is targeting, and there's certainly a
> > great need for beginner friendly distros we can recommend to people
> > interesting in joining the ecosystem. Isn't it our responsibility to
> > set the example for best security practices, and to practice what we
> > preach?
>
> I agree, but where do we go from here? I reluctantly would like to turn
> this into a which-distro-would-you-recommend-for-switchers-poll.
>
> Mint has been (past tense) my go-to recommendations for
> Windows-switchers and I agree that these incidents are troublesome to
> say the least, so what would be a good distro to recommend to someone
> who would or could switch but "won't eventually want to learn how to
> build a kernel by themselves" (sorry Arch folks... I love you all but
> this is not one for you).
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