Re: Good antivirus.

From: LucM (lucm_at_iqato.moc)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:46:06 -0400

jayjwa wrote:
> On 2004-07-04, Nuno Paquete <nmp@ispgaya.pt> wrote:
>
>>>Install a new OS call GNU/Linux!
>>
>>I agree with you. I use GNU/Linux for 5 years.
>>I've installed several distros, Red Hat, Suse, Debian...
>>Now I use Slackware, it's great, the best!
>>But I need to use Windows professionally, for my sadness :(
>
>
> You poor soul...but there is hope! http://www.winehq.org/
> And mingw for devel http://www.mingw.org/
>
> Each version of Wine is getting better and better, and it runs the Windoze
> apps.

With many software wine is fine, but still there is plenty of stuff it
does not support. Same with crossfire.

I would definitely advise one not to rely on these products for
professional purpose. If the required software does not work on Linux
and there is no possible replacement, a dual boot is the way to go. One
could also try VMWare but it's quite expensive.

As for the antivirus, Avast is fine.

> I need it for. Definately check it out. I prefer a sys-wide
> install, with a special 'wine' group for the users I chose to let have
> access to it. I made a small 'Windows' file system starting at
> /usr/local/wine, and set that to 'C:\' in my wine config. D:\ is the
> full disk, A:\ is ~. There's even a Slackware tgz. Make two scripts, a
> wine.sh and a wine.csh, (one for tcsh/csh's and one for bash/zsh/sh's)
> and set wine's environment in those:
>
> #!/bin/csh
> # Add Wine's env. vars. csh style
> setenv WINELOADER /usr/bin/wine
[deletia]

Nobody asked for a wine tutorial... 

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LucM
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