alan c wrote: > > > > Think of scattering seeds of weeds on a concrete driveway. The seeds > will not flourish. Just like computer viruses and linux. > Just an experiment to verify this - download a windows .exe file, and > in ubuntu, try to run it - click, double click, whatever. It will not > run. Even if it was a virus it will not run. > It will if you have wine installed. > Try a more advanced thing. Download a real linux binary file which is > *intended* to be installed - such as the realplayer binary > RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from the real site: > http://uk.real.com/player/select/?src=fd_uk_pldl_oos&rsrc=fd_uk_pldl_oos > > When you have downloaded it and saved it somewhere, click on it. > double click on it, use it in the run facility or whatever. > It does not run. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to > discover how it can be run, :-) :-) > > > If you download an Ubuntu binary package and click on it it will open in gdebi, a package installation program.
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