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Actually nearly all the good free software that comes with linux also runs on windows. There aren't many bits of good linux software that don't have a windows version because its not exactly difficult to port them these days.

I have Free Zone Alarm VC on my other computer (as well as ZA Firewall)

It now fails to update and gives me error that my VC is out of date

It has been like that for 18 months (I rarely use this machine now) and I can't fix it

tim

Well the windows kernel can do everything linux can so all it needs is a layer to convert the calls.

The NTFS filesystem was streets ahead of the linux file systems for years and probably still is ahead of what most distros use by default. Its had fine grained resource management and permissions for decades.

Windows users just never used them.

Windows has maybe 10 times more viruses than mac or Linux. It might even be 100 times more.

That does not mean that the number on mac and Linux is zero.

Andy

I have not encountered a Linux virus ever, or a Mac one.

But back in the day I caught a few windows ones.

And?

Cheers, T i m

Nor any of the worms going about? The ones that you can't easily detect after they have installed a root kit as there isn't anything in linux to detect them?

There are plenty of linux based machines out there running stuff the owners don't know about so it does happen.

A lot of the botnets taken down used linux machines as controllers as if they used windows machines it would have shown up too easily and they tend to be turned off so you lose your controller.