Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop -3

[valhalla2100 at comcast.net]

I have a friend who is big in BSD.  He also hates
Microsoft products (but I won't hold it against 
him).

Good to know that BSD will run most LINUX programs.

I just thought of a solution.  With a 1 TB drive I
have enough room to set up multi OS and one can be
used as a sandbox (or test area).  I can try out
things in it and if they create problems All I will
(should??) have to do is to reinstall.

Thomas

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:48:30 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

On 20-03-10 03:30, valhalla2100 at comcast.net wrote:

> 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.

Debian is not on a release schedule, period. It's done when it's done.

>> If you want security, forget Linux. Use BSD.
>
> Will BSD run LINUX programs?

Yes and no.

Most Linux programs (99.99%) also exist in a *BSD version.
If it doesn't, then usually you can recompile from source.

But you can't run a compiled Linux program on BSD. Actually you can, but 
you wouldn't want to do that unless you have a lot of aspirine.

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