** Reply to message from John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:34:44 -0700
> At my last job, we had a sweet old Polish lady who was completely > non-technical, but who adored her Red Hat 8.0 partition and loathed > Windows. We had to use Windows for LookOut, Project, etc. so I > installed PuTTY and Cygwin X so she could keep working on the Linux > servers :-) Hopefully this was quite a few years ago. Ripping out Linux and installing Windows on the hardware just for a couple of Windows apps seems overkill. For 3 or so years virtual machines are the cats meow for doing this and keeping your base OS( host ) as it should be, secure on Linux. When managment hasn't sold their sole to El Diablo. Good to hear she still got to have her cake and eat it too. I've seen kids running Linux all through highschool and moms using it too. It is all about the pre-loading. Something massively controlled by you know who at the PC OEM level. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
