OT: New Virus?

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dogscoff said:
Also, I have no idea which of the baffling array of Linux distros I should go for.

Debian is the way to go. It has the best package management setup, making it really easy to install software.

Suicide Junkie said:
It will be a nice "infinite"-space server that you can run anything you like on, 24/7.

Only problem is that you won't get nearly as much bandwidth as a web server in a data center.

Xrati said:
It also sounds as though Wine will be a while before it can help.

Wine does a good job now. It doesn't due to well with very intensive 3d apps, such as some games, but it does work for most things (including SE4). A lot of people keep a Windows partition around for such problem games.

Technically, a lot of quite functional Linux software is still in alpha or beta.