Antivirus and anti spam for ubuntu desktop

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 20-03-10 03:30, valhalla2100 at comcast.net wrote:

> Is it true, as I was told, that Debian is not on
> a rapid release schedule?  I was told that Debian
> is averaging around 3 years before upgrades.

Debian is not on a release schedule, period. It's done when it's done.

>> If you want security, forget Linux. Use BSD.
>
> Will BSD run LINUX programs?

Yes and no.

Most Linux programs (99.99%) also exist in a *BSD version.
If it doesn't, then usually you can recompile from source.

But you can't run a compiled Linux program on BSD. Actually you can, but 
you wouldn't want to do that unless you have a lot of aspirine.