Do you trust this Gaming Site?

[MoonRise]

Subject says it all. Anyone else here trust the games recommended?

http://linuxappfinder.com/games

[GreyGeek]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

WHOIS says that it is a twocows registered site and netcraft says it is in a block owned by Amazon.com.

It is running two servers with Apache on Fedora and one with Apache/FrontPage on FreeBSD.

BUT, that doesn't say anything about how the games are vetted. I would first check to see if the game is in the repository for Kubuntu, or any other debian based distro.

If I were going to try a game from that site I'd install it in a virtual host and check it with an av checker. Before I install or run it I would run rkhunter and chkrootkit. Then I would run them AFTER I ran the game to see if they find anything suspicious.

[Bruce]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

If you go to the site and check the links for the debian/buntu download links they are debian/buntu repositories.

I would venture to say they are safe, but are likely already listed in your package manager.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

Strange... I went several links down on several of them and didn't find any that used the archive.canonical.com/ubuntu repository.

[MoonRise]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

I noticed that and is why I posted this. I've used outside repositories before but here of late with so many sites being "contaminated" I'm a little apprehensive.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

It's smart to be cautious.

That's why I defer to the Ubuntu or other FOSS debian repositories, and to some commercial sites, like Skype, for example. In my experience TUCOWS is mainly a Windows DL site with a spotty record. Apparently I am not alone.

[MoonRise]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

Interesting link there. Does make you wonder.

[Vistaus]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

I've been using Linuxappfinder for a long time and haven't had any problems and the packages are virus-free. It really is a safe site

Dunno what you guys are doing, but most of the games link to archive.canonical.com/ubuntu
They even have apt: links (just click on Install Now).

[MoonRise]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

Thanks for the info!

[kyonides]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

Take a look!

[img width=400 height=276]http://a.imageshack.us/img693/2739/linuxappfinder.png[/img]

The thing is not all of them are available in the official repos...

[perspectoff]

Re: Do you trust this Gaming Site?

Linuxappfinder generally has good apps.

However, I absolutely share your concern.

There are a lot of apps from private sites which I am not sure I should trust or not.

That's why I use a quarantined OS for them.

On most of my computers I have several partitions on the hard drive. I use one Kubuntu installation as my main OS (and have a spare Windows partition as well), but in addition I have a second and thrid partition in which I have duplicate Kubuntu OS's installed.

I use one of these duplicate Kubuntu OS's in which to install and run games and apps I might not otherwise trust. I never put any sensitive files on these partitions, and if they were to be hacked or suspicious in any way, I merely overwrite the partition completely.

Starting in Lucid, I think, it is not possible to access the other partitions on the hard drive without a password, which affords some protection from a hacker (that does get in) accessing data on the other hard drives.

Some games require opening up many firewall ports, something I never do in my primary secure OS.

So by having a parallel OS, I can open up the firewall ports and play games, install possibly questionable apps and visit websites of dubious heritage yet still not risk my sensitive data.

I highly, highly recommend this approach, and it can only be done with Linux OS's, not with Windows.

Some people do the same thing using virtual machines, but this makes games run more slowly and, of course, a virtual machine is reliant on the host OS, and there are some minor security concerns in doing this, as well.

I don't even use Wubi, because that means Windows is running in the background.

For info on how I set up my system to have multiple partitions, each running a separate OS, see

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Multiple_OS_Installation