I will say sorry up front if some of my questions sound silly. There looks to be a lot of information here to look through so I thought it may be easier to ask a few basic questions.
I am kind of new to Linux. I have used it here and there in the past, but never made a total switch. I just installed OpenSUSE on a VM (the system I am posting this on).
As I am sure everyone knows you would not want to run a Windows box with a live connection to the internet with no virus scanner running. Will I need to find a similar product for my SuSE VM?
Thus far the desktop features in the OS seem pretty cool. I would like to dig a bit more in to the shell aspects of the OS once I get a feel for how it works.
I will say sorry up front if some of my questions sound silly. There looks to be a lot of information here to look through so I thought it may be easier to ask a few basic questions.
I am kind of new to Linux. I have used it here and there in the past, but never made a total switch. I just installed OpenSUSE on a VM (the system I am posting this on).
As I am sure everyone knows you would not want to run a Windows box with a live connection to the internet with no virus scanner running. Will I need to find a similar product for my SuSE VM?
Thus far the desktop features in the OS seem pretty cool. I would like to dig a bit more in to the shell aspects of the OS once I get a feel for how it works.
thanks.
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Hello Old_Sch0oL and welcome to the openSUSE forums. I can say that so far I have not found a need to use an anti-virus program while using openSUSE. A few choices exist, but they just don’t seem necessary for the typical desktop user, which may be different for a server. Anyway, I do always use an Anti-virus program for Windows, in or out of a VM, but I don’t use one for openSUSE anywhere.
No you do not need anti-virus in Linux generally. I never use it.
Users that multiboot with windows may use anti-virus in Linux to check files they are sending to their windows file system or even to scan their windows system.
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> Welcome to openSUSE
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> No you do not need anti-virus in Linux generally. I never use it.
> Users that multiboot with windows may use anti-virus in Linux to check
> files they are sending to their windows file system or even to scan
> their windows system.
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As stated by caf4926 and jdmcdaniel3, as of this time there is no concern with
viruses that infect Linux machines. In the future this may well change.
We run clamav on our Samba Servers primarily out of concern with Windows
viruses propagating from the server to Windows clients.
If you feel the need for anti-virus software clamav should suffice. It is
available on the repos.
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P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Others have answered your specific question, so here is some general information on openSUSE Linux that may help.
First a few links to some guides on our forum for help in knowing about where repositories for software are located, where information on drivers can be found, how to setup the multimedia etc …
And a couple links to some basic concepts on openSUSE, with both the old and newer versions of mostly the same document , but with different formatting …
Thanks a lot for the welcome & the information. I will check out the links and review the info there. So far I have not really noticed my VM running slow, but I am also not asking it to do too much right now. My goal is to learn enough about the OS so I can move one of my Desktops or notebooks over to Linux.
I am actually a Windows engineer professionally, so I would like to learn how to use Linux from the shell as well as I know how to use Windows from its command shell and Powershell. I chose to go with a VM as they are easy to recover if a mess things up too bad
Thanks a lot for the welcome & the information. I will check out the links and review the info there. So far I have not really noticed my VM running slow, but I am also not asking it to do too much right now. My goal is to learn enough about the OS so I can move one of my Desktops or notebooks over to Linux.
I am actually a Windows engineer professionally, so I would like to learn how to use Linux from the shell as well as I know how to use Windows from its command shell and Powershell. I chose to go with a VM as they are easy to recover if a mess things up too bad
Thanks Again.
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You are very welcome Old_Sch0oL. I, like many others, still maintain dual boot computers and do not use a pure Linux setup. So, I am not a purest for Linux, but oddly, the more I have used openSUSE, the less I need anything else. I am not sure I will ever git rid of Windows entirely, partly because my livelihood still depends on using Windows as well. But, I am an openSUSE booster and I make ever effort to help make it better, in every way I can. I ask that you try to do the same and good luck using openSUSE.
So far it seems cool. I run a little Windows domain on my Dev ESXi host, so I may see if I can get the OpenSUSE VM to join my dev domain. I have not gotten too deep in to the shell yet, there is still a bunch of stuff to look at in the UI and review the various documents that are out there.
There have only been two weird things I have noticed so far on the VM.
it will not remember my desktop resolution settings. At each log out it goes back to 800x600
from time to time the left click stops working in the VM until I log in to a new session.
Both of those may be due to the fact I am running on a VM right now.
It does seem like a very slick OS so far. I also have a Fedora VM, but I don’t think I like that distro as much as the OpenSUSE.
