Re: E-Smith (was Re: [edlug] Stallman's talk)

[James Eaton-Lee <james@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Dick,

At no point in my e-mail did I deny this - what I specifically said that
linux won't do is facilitate anti-virus management ("there are some
things which linux will not, at present, do at all, such as AntiVirus
management"). Norton, CA Innoculate IT, and Sophos (but to name a few)
are all updated via a central server which pulls AV definitions from the
web, and Sophos (to pull an example) is centrally managed in the same
way (for instance, it remotely deploys over active directory very
easily). It is this software which does not exist for linux platforms. 

I had no idea that my posting would be so provocative :p

 - James.

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 16:13, Dick Middleton wrote:
> James Eaton-Lee wrote:
> > I've taken a look at it, but I still stand by my original point; windows
> > is easier to administer and does more things applicable to the IT roles
> > of a small office. Even setting aside e-mail and internet connection
> > sharing, there are some things which linux will not, at present, do at
> > all, such as AntiVirus management and Patch management (there are no
> > third party tools, such as the Sophos package, which will manage
> > antivirus software across many machines, which do this on linux..
> > there's also no SUS (Software Update Services) for linux..)
> 
> I'm sure lots people will point out your misconceptions:
> 
>      1) There are linux anti virus tools but they're not used much since 
> linux doesn't suffer the problem to anything like the same extent.
> 
>      2) Most if not all distributions now have automatic software 
> updating.  The ones I have seen are significantly more sophisticated 
> than anything doze has. There's no subscription of course since there is 
> no cost.
> 
> Dick
> 
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