Cleve Allison wrote: > 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
Basically we are like most large organizations and we have a set of approved platforms and software. What it boils down to is that Solaris and Windows are "approved" for general use. I can just about use anything that I please for a server. However, they do not want to have to have many admins trained in all kinds of different platforms. They also want to stay consistent between sites. Every time I put something about Linux in my weekly reports, some eyebrows get raised and the lead general computing admin in Pasadena, CA gets questioned about it. What pisses me off is that the data analysis group already uses linux on >300 machines worth of beowulf clusters, but I can't "officially" use it on general computing. But yet, I also have to supply support for the LDAS beowulfs. I just use the best tool for the job. I already have Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows, etc. Getting Linux on the desktop for the average user population is a battle I can't win right now. However, in the 1-2 year range I am more hopeful. I already have to support Linux in an official manner, so I don't see why supporting users would be any different. Shannon
