He could put up a Windows box with the tracking software, share its Internet out over a local network, and use Ubuntu on a second computer that gets all its Internet from the Windows computer.
If people are going to drop by periodically to check up on his enforced Windows use, he can just set up Ubuntu to look like Windows XP:
http://wskills.blogspot.com/2006/12/linux-that-looks-like-windows-xp.html
Link that won't break:
This sounds like an opportunity for the Open Source Linux community to step up to the plate and provide the government with some tracking software. The thing is, doesn't Linux already have tracking software which can do what the Slashdot entry says is needed?
--- Julie [email protected] wrote:
Pirate Banned from Using Linux
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/23/190238&from=rss
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