On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:07:26 +0530, "Chetan S" cshring@gmail.com wrote:
So here's a proposed approach to move the cybercafe owners to Linux
- Move their servers first.
right
- Check which applications need to be moved on priority to Linux.
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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.. :-(
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!!
On the additional bonus side most apps / games run faster under Linux on wine :D
Yeah.. I remember when the Redhat's Celestia used to bork up every now and then and Windoze version of Celestia (same version) used to be smoot (through Wine)
Quake3 demo was a pain on Windows.. took more than a min to load and the graphics was jerky. and Linux version used to come up in 8 secs and was as smooth as melting butter.