Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:30 AM,  <valhalla2100 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello Amedee Van Gasse
>
> Thanks for the comments and suggestions.
>
>>> I am thinking of going to Debian, the Novell
>>> or to Fedora.  I was told that they secure.
>
>> Ubuntu is just Debian with a few fancy tricks
>> to make it a bit comfortable for newcomers.
>> Novell/Suse And Redhat/Fedora are also just
>> Linuxes. Just as secure or  unsecure as Debian.
>
> Is it true, as I was told, that Debian is not on
> a rapid release schedule?  I was told that Debian
> is averaging around 3 years before upgrades.
>
>> If you want security, forget Linux. Use BSD.
>
> Will BSD run LINUX programs?

You know, for someone who says, & I quote, "I worked as network
administrator with unixfreebsd", you ask some *very* basic, "rookie"
questions.

What kind of network administrator does not know the correct name of
the software they used and has to ask questions about it on the
mailing list of a completely unrelated, rival operating system?

To attempt to answer:

BSD is not one OS. There are many BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Dragonfly BSD, and there used to be more that are effectively dead
now.

FreeBSD is the most popular.

There is also PC-BSD, a /distribution/ based on FreeBSD, like Ubuntu
is a distribution of Linux based on Debian.

FreeBSD can run Linux programs, but only through an emulator, which I
think is called "lxrun". It is a last-resort thing, only to be used
when native FreeBSD programs are not available.

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