On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:07:26 +0530, "Chetan S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So here's a proposed approach to move the cybercafe owners to Linux > > 1. Move their servers first. right > 2. Check which applications need to be moved on priority to Linux. ... > Really nice line of thought - I mean systematic and practcal approach. But you have missed one major point .. Wine will also execute viruses and other alwares just fine.. :-( Sorry for throwing a stone at your idea.. but I too have gone over the idea when I was migrating my home pc and got stuck as all the viruses also started affecting my machine.. I had folder.htt and desktop.ini in my home folder with that stupid vbscript virus!! > On the additional bonus side most apps / games run faster under Linux > on wine :D Yeah.. I remember when the Redhat's Celestia used to bork up every now and then and Windoze version of Celestia (same version) used to be smoot (through Wine) Quake3 demo was a pain on Windows.. took more than a min to load and the graphics was jerky. and Linux version used to come up in 8 secs and was as smooth as melting butter. -- Laxminarayan G Kamath A [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
