[SC.LUG] Transferring to linux

[Matthew Tolley]

Hello all,



Now I've transferred completely from MS to Linux (I was dabbling in 
linux for years but not seriously), I have a few newbie-type queries and 
would appreciate all help on them...

(1)     In MS regular Registry cleaning and spyware sweeps were needed 
to maintain speed and security. What kinds of maintenance should I do 
regularly on linux, and how often?

(2)     What file extensions in linux are equivalent to program files in 
MS (such as .exe)? And where will I find them?

(3)    I've downloaded a firefox plugin as a .bin file - how do I 
install it?

(4)    On other OSs, having more than one AV is a no-no. Is this also 
the case on Linux? For some reason ClamAV hasn't configured correctly on 
my machine. How do I fix this? Does anyone use F-Prot or Aegis and how 
do you rate it?

(5)   I moved to Thunderbird because it seems the most highly 
recommended email client (David's advocacy of Kmail notwithstanding). 
Thanks to Robert who sent me the link on deleting duplicate emails (this 
works really well). My mail headers in Thunderbird have way too much 
information though (about 20 lines of it) - how can I change this? I 
only really need the sender's email, addressees, date and subject.

(6)     I'm using Amarok because it's always so highly recommended in 
the Linux magazines (seems to keep coming out tops in the reviews) and 
it supposedly supports flac files, of which I have quite a lot. But when 
I ask it to play .flac files it says "no available decoder". How do I 
fix this?

Thanks in advance!



Matthew