Sophos Anti Virus

[Nermin Celik]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Nermin Celik <n.celik00 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo <
> nospaze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am Freitag, den 14.05.2010, 13:44 +1000 schrieb Nermin Celik:
>> > At work the IT technicians are insisting on transfering me to Red Hat
>> > from FC12 due to "Anti Virus system. Sophos Anti Virus only supports
>> > Red Hat not Fedora". What does this mean? I'm new to Unix environment,
>> > and this is too technicial.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29
>>
>> Your technicians message means you should buy the commercial version in
>> order of your antivirus to work. Since fedora and redhat are almost the
>> same, I don't personally agree but you don't mention any technical
>> argument, just the advertising.
>>
>> :)
>>
>
> Advertising.... :( no....
>
> IT technicians are experienced in Windows. My machine is Unix based, due to
> the type of my work, you can say my machine is the odd one out.
>
> Technical argument(s):
>   Technicans say: Sophos Anti Virus only supports Red Hat not Fedora
>   Me: confused. Not whole heartedly convinced, hence have posted a message
> here.
>
> "Since fedora and redhat are almost the same" shouldn't Sophos Anti Virus
> be also supported by Fedora?
>
>
>

I'm requesting ideas/strong arguments so that I don't change from fedora.


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>> Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo - nospaze at gmail.com
>> otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962
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