They gone so far as to officially ban Linux on the desktop at work?? Wow, that can only be a response to many employees either installing Linux as their primary desktop or many employees requesting it. Good going!!!!! That can only be a sign of the desktop movement moving forward. ca
At 12:47 AM 6/15/2003, you wrote: >will hill wrote: > >>Ouch. The faster you migrate, the better off you will be. I have not >>used M$ to do more than burn CDs for a year now, and I don't think I'm >>missing much. > >I use Xcdroast to burn CDs in Linux. > >> >>What does M$ still provide that you actually need? Would'nt it be better >>to isolate those few needs and take those computers off the >>network? Surely, email and browsing are not those Microsoft needs. If >>you get rid of that, you eliminate most of your virus threats. The only >>thing that would be left is Word bombs comming in from the sneaker net >>and that will go away if you move your text editing to Open Office or >>some other reasonable program. >> > >It is a political issue. The only things that I still use M$ for are >Visio and Adobe Premier for video editing. Unfortunately, our purchase >card software only runs under M$. There is no way around that - I have >tried. Also, there is a partial ban on Linux for the desktop machines at >work... Politics! I personally have eliminated M$ from 90% of my >activities, but work si a much bigger battle. Mainly due to politics. > >Shannon > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
