On 14 Mar, Paolo Carballo wrote: > About anti-virus solutions. Would it be worthwhile to provide a user based > scanner under linux? For the enterprise, people on the list use email > scanners for most of the brunt work. > This is probably the last area of the "old" PC industry that Linux has no > free implementations of. I wonder if it is just because of the amount of > work needed to maintain the data files. I thought that Linux users would > have no need for A/V solutions. > We don't. It's the windows lusers who live behind the networks we administrate who need A/V solutions. So clearly, no Linux hacker is going to want to develop one and make it free software just for kicks. > Does anyone know of any other fields Linux has no free programs for? > Hmm... There's enterprise accounting systems, for one (there appears to be one, but it's not good for any serious use), a good 3D modeling system, something like 3D Studio (no, Blender doesn't count, it's not Free (speech)). These are all I can think of off the top of my head. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
