[Gllug] RedHat

[Jackson, Harry]

Hi all

I am currently trying to out guess our IT department as to the questions
that they are going to ask when I request the RH box on the network and the
first thing I think that they will ask is about Virus checkers. I know that
99% of virus's for windows will not affect a *nix box (Unless DOS on a
network). Has anyone got any experience of free virus checkers that can be
used on Linux as I do not have any budget to buy anything. I have seen that
McaFee do one and sophos which comes with a free 30 day trial so that could
be good in the short term. I am also going to write up a list of things that
I think that will be requiring answers so that I do not get caught out and
make any half arsed attempts. If that person is still interested in writing
a document on migrating from Windows to Linux then I may have a little
material in the next few weeks from a client perspective.

Virus (Must be protected before I start). ????????????? Under Investigation
Mail (Very important and critical that all existing mail can be
read).?????????????? Under Investigation
Office (Must be compatible with Word, Excel, PowerPoint I am not sure if
there is a Project equivalent) Star Office. I have also had a look at the
Binary Code License that they comes with Star Office and from what I gather
it is completely free for internal use. I find this hard to believe as I was
expecting the normal "free to single user companies have to pay" agreement. 
Shares (Must be able to connect and read/write to current shared drives)
This should be easy enough to do (he says)
Web (Connect to internet via Proxy). Just set it up to use a proxy. Unsure
as to how authentication will work but I know this can be done.
Applications (These are all the apps that we use as a business but not
everyone uses these and I know several upgrade windows or *nix clients).

It should be an interesting few weeks. So be prepared for some daft
questions.

Regards;
Harry Jackson.


     



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