Thanks, I have to make some updates, yes. I’ve just been so busy, that it’s been hard to get away and use my time for this. But I do have a draft saved and in the works. ;)

That post was written for Dapper Drake (6.06LTS). Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
Thanks.

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the ‘update-manager’ package and include the following error message:

‘E:Type ‘multiverse’ is not known on line 7 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.’

…i’m pretty new to all this and tried to resolve this issue with no avail. basically, i’d like to replace what i replaced with whatever was there originally. does anyone the source for this info?

thanks in advance and if i stall try this out

-j

You might want to add the app cheese for the webcams:

sudo aptitude install cheese

A few things come to mind reading your comment:

1) I never suggested the list was accurate. In fact I said “…this is just some of the thousands of applications available…”. Besides this was written over two years ago, things have changed quite a bit!

2) I’ve used Ubuntu for more than 90 days, please don’t assume things.

3) “Moronic”? Given the popularity of this post, it seems many readers do not agree. Please do not make disparaging comments directed at a person, that is not acceptable behaviour.

Finally, there was no need to be nasty! This is a free site that I spend time (when I can) writing stuff that might help other people. As such, being polite is a more appropriate manner. If you don’t like something, or I missed an application that you may like, that’s no grounds to be plain rude about it.

My blog in by no means perfect, I make mistakes just like other people. It would have been better to simply suggest the applications you’d include or remove, so that others can benefit; without the personal, ignorant comments.
Thank you.

I suggest that the administrators spend their time doing things that teach them how to be less moronic with their selective approach of testing programs made available in Ubuntu’s apt after using it for 90 days just so that they can blog about discoveries made from apt-get and apropos.

Go team Ubuntu!@#

?? Change the info for one of the interfaces?

Not sure what you’re referring to?

:)

Most AV applications DO NOT protect against a virus that attempts to target Linux.

I am one of those people who have been using Linux (Ubuntu) for years without virus issues. I think this is a case where some users are simply not aware of how Linux based systems function. As yoachi explained, it is extremely difficult to write a Linux virus as UNIX systems run multi-user environments (specific permission sets are given to specific processes depending on the user).

With regards to those who visit websites, (continuing yoachi’s dialogue), and think they might get a virus:

“…You open firefox as a normal (ie non-root) user. No matter what you do from here, any program or file executed by firefox will only maintain your permission set; ie if you downloaded a nasty executable it STILL couldn’t hurt your machine as it only had the rights of the program that downloaded it— namely firefox, which is being run by you, the normal user…”

Don’t forget, In Ubuntu (which is Debian based), we can use commands such as sudo or sudo su, as such we can visualize (in simpler terms) that web browsers, email apps etc, DO NOT run with root privileges.

Note: Bugs or exploits are another matter all together, and I’ve never heard or used a system that does not have to be regularly updated, because of such bugs and / or discovered exploits.

In the event that a Linux virus is introduced (last I read there was a very trivial number of them in the wild), it would be isolated to that user’s account. I might add also, that I’ve been working with many different physical and virtual web servers for clients over the years, they were all Linux based, all operating for several years and zero AV installed. The odd time that something has occurred, it’s almost always been an exploit in some package a client installed, and almost always because the client did not properly secure the package and / or keep it updated. As for virus activity? ZERO.

I’m not suggesting Ubuntu, or Linux users in general, throw caution to the wind, rather, I’m suggesting that common sense be used. Installing AV applications to protect other people is a personal choice.

Finally, I remember a couple years back purposely introducing every type of virus I could (there are tons to review when searching via Google), to an Ubuntu Linux test box, in many cases, the various installed AV packages did NOTHING when the infected file was accessed – More importantly, nothing happened to that box.