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Does installing and using Wine open up your Linux platform to windows virus'?

Just wondering if installing wine might open up a fairly solid linux desktop to the world of windows virus'. Any confirmed reports about that? Would you then install a windows antivirus product ...
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alternatives to wine

Is there some alternative to Wine ( the windows "emulator" ) which is more stable and more likely to work with my Windows games?
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How do you play this old unix game?

I recently tried the simh emulator, pdp11. The disk image I used can be found on the internet, and instructions for booting it are here. Presumably it belonged to Dennis Ritchie, as the username is ...
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How to do dosbox autoexecutable like dosemu on Opensuse

I was trying to migrate an DOS aplication on a dos emulator, I was pretty sure that dosemu was the answer ... but a couple of errors ocurred on the program. So I tryied dosbox. The thing is, under ...
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How to run programs in a Sandbox?

I have been using PlayOnLinux to run windows programs on Linux. PlayOnLinux creates a virtual drive for each program installed and every VD represents a different Windows XP computer. Any changes ...
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Ubuntu Linux and SCO UNIX OpenServer

Can Ubuntu Linux run SCO UNIX OpenServer 5.0.7 applications like filePro? Can I use CTAR to copy application directories from a CTAR backup tape to Linux Ubuntu?