Re: Antivirus
The CD from Ubuntu arrived this morning and it was the 6.10 version.
However prior to its arrival I had already solved the problem of InfraRecorder not burning the CD properly. By that I mean to ‘unpacking’ the .iso rather than burning the .iso file to CD. The instructions on the web site are wrong or maybe incomplete.
Somewhere from the darkest recesses of my ancient brain I dragged out that Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 will ‘unpack’ and burn an .iso file so I tried that and lo and behold I ended up with a bootable CD.
Booting from the CD takes forever and a couple of days but once Linux was up I felt right at home. It has an Amiga ‘feel’ about it in that there were drop down menus to access the various programmes and the desktop was almost empty. I like that!
It is difficult to assess Linux running from a CD because a CD drive is nowhere near as fast as a hard drive and of course I couldn’t access the Internet, nor my secondary hard drive. The other problem would be with PageStream, a DTP programme, Audio Cleaning Lab and one or two other programmes that I use. There isn’t a version that runs on Linux. Being a different OS to Windows it obviously would not be affected by the hundreds of thousands of ‘nasties’ that can infect the normal PC, which is a plus.
I suppose that I could allocate a spare partition to use to boot up on Linux but in all honesty it would be a bit of a waste of hard drive space.
It was an interesting experiment and worth all the hassle because it brought to my attention that my CD/DVD re-writer was dicky when burning a DVD.
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