> 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.. :-(
True. However thats where Linux shines. Even if Wine runs in admin
mode, it runs within normal user domain of Linux.
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!!
More the number of stones better the chance of refining the approach.
In virus / malware case the main Linux machine remains safe since wine
is run in user mode. This can later be taken a step ahead by
"cleaning" the wine enviro when a user quits the system. Essentially a
kiosk mode.
So here is possible steps for a cafe login :
1. Create a temp home dir for the cafe user when he/she logs in with
default template applications ( a la' /etc/skel )
2. Let the user install / play / whatever and bork the home as much
he/she wishes.
3. When he / she logs out clean the temp home dir.
4. Profit ?
If this needs to go even further let the linux image run under qemu,
essentially sandboxing the environment. :D But by this point am more
on the visions than implementations !
Back to virii, there are quite a few instances of viruses which detect
and do not run under wine :)
regards,
C
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