olieviya Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Anybody know any good free software for Linux? Especially Anti virus and Firewall applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted December 8, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 8, 2005 Free Antivirus: F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Workstations Free Firewall: SourceForge.net search All other free/open source software: SourceForge.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Hello Your resource for free software is: Freshmeat SourceForge.Net You dont really need virus protection when you run Linux because there are pretty much next to none viruses for the Linux platform and the operating system is pretty secure by design. However, if you want virus protection, you can use ClamAV or gui-based application such as ClamTK. There is also AntiVir. For firewall, you use iptables (probably comes with your Linux distribution) or some script that uses iptables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted December 8, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 8, 2005 Openoffice make word documents, powerpoint presentations, and excell spread sheets. http://www.openoffice.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Your distribution comes with alot of software for everyday use, which Linux distribution do you use? I recently tried Ubuntu Linux, it was pretty nice. My distribution of choice is Slackware Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olieviya Posted December 10, 2005 Author Share Posted December 10, 2005 Your distribution comes with alot of software for everyday use, which Linux distribution do you use? I recently tried Ubuntu Linux, it was pretty nice. My distribution of choice is Slackware Linux. 23845[/snapback] I'm on Ubuntu, how's Slackware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olieviya Posted December 10, 2005 Author Share Posted December 10, 2005 Openoffice make word documents, powerpoint presentations, and excell spread sheets. http://www.openoffice.org/ 23813[/snapback] Ubuntu comes with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted December 10, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 10, 2005 Ubuntu comes with that 23908[/snapback] You didnt tell us what linux you were on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olieviya Posted December 10, 2005 Author Share Posted December 10, 2005 You didnt tell us what linux you were on. 23912[/snapback] Yeah, anyway, thanks for the links! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDemolition Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 there's also an open source firewall called ClamAV. you might wanna check it out. i tried the Windows version of it and it worked like a charm . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted December 11, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 11, 2005 there's also an open source firewall called ClamAV. you might wanna check it out. i tried the Windows version of it and it worked like a charm . 23960[/snapback] ClamAV is Clam Antivirus, what you would've tried on Windows is ClamWin Free Antivirus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olieviya Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 there's also an open source firewall called ClamAV. you might wanna check it out. i tried the Windows version of it and it worked like a charm . 23960[/snapback] Well, I'm having some trouble with my repositories and so I can't install it right now, but when I do I'll give you my opinion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ubuntu Linux is nice. My experience with it, was that its just run it and its ready and everything works. Slackware is a little different, it is more Unix-like. It puts more emphasis on the console. It is like Linux without flavour. Ubuntu Linux which you run comes with alot of software for everyday use. Check the Ubuntu software repositry, check SourceForge, check Freshmeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olieviya Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Ubuntu Linux is nice. My experience with it, was that its just run it and its ready and everything works. Slackware is a little different, it is more Unix-like. It puts more emphasis on the console. It is like Linux without flavour. Ubuntu Linux which you run comes with alot of software for everyday use. Check the Ubuntu software repositry, check SourceForge, check Freshmeat. 24008[/snapback] I'm having a shitload of trouble with Ubuntu at the moment... screen not centered, network not right etc etc and I tried d/l clam but when it installs it fails and i get errors all over the place even after pressing the shut down/restart button... When I do get all that stuff fixed and working, if ever, I will be sure to use those sites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 What version of Ubuntu do you use? The newest version is "Breezy Badger", last I tried was "Hoary Hedgehog". Runned it off a LiveCD, worked like a charm. Ubuntu website have a forum with alot of helpful people that can help you with your trouble and you can report about your problems. You can also get live support on IRC in #ubuntu at Freenode (irc.freenode.net) Maybe you have more luck with another distribution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDemolition Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 ClamAV is Clam Antivirus, what you would've tried on Windows is ClamWin Free Antivirus. 23961[/snapback] yeah that's pretty much what i meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted December 13, 2005 Moderators Share Posted December 13, 2005 yeah that's pretty much what i meant 24045[/snapback] It's a big difference from an open source firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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