<anti-rant> Some of us don't have a choice on what we run on our desktops. My company mandates Windows/2000, being just six miles down the road from Micro$oft. Use of any other workstation operating system without authorization from a vice-president is grounds for dismissal. Your ideas may work for you, but they won't necessarily work for everyone. </anti-rant>
"Great Minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Admiral Hyman Rickover Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)856-5940 VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: John Summerfield > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Changing runlevels etc > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > > > As has often been mentioned here, Cygwin offers a lot of benefits. For > > example, it has an OpenSSH implementation that includes scp. I use it > > frequently to copy stuff to my various Linux and Linux/390 systems. I also > > use it to ssh into my Windows 2K system from home, if I want to be able to > > do data-intensive things remotely. I also use rsync running on my Windows > > 2K box to copy stuff to my home system. Cygwin is a great tool. If people > > aren't running it already, I highly recommend getting a copy of what you > > think you might need and install it. You won't be sorry. > > > > Time for a rant;-) > > You people are supposed to be Linux administrators. Therefore, you > should be capable of looking after Linux on your desktop. > > If you are capable of looking after Linux on your desktop, then you > should be running Linux on your desktop. > > If you are not capable of looking after Linux on your desktop, then you > should be running Linux on your desktop so as to become more familiar > with it. > > If "corporate standards" require a "standard desktop" argue for an > alternative "corporate standard." Propose it as a pilor study. Point out > the deficiencies in W* - it's prone to viruses and the like and so needs > bandaids such as AV software, it requires add-on after add-on, all of > which strain the "corporate standard," licencing issues with commercial > software are an ongoing nightmare etc, W* requires everyone to have an > expensive, fairly new PC of their own. > > In contrast, Linux doesn't fall to viruses, doesn't need those bandaids, > a bog-standard Linux installation actually has lots of useful > application software on it, licencing issues with commercial software > are next to non-existant (hardly anyone will need commercial software), > and everyone will get along just fine with a (whatever you've got that's > old and cheap - say a Pentium with 32 Mbytes of RAM) running as an > X-terminal. > > If you really really must use Windows for something, then I guess you > will have to have your own expensive PC - but point out the hardware and > software costs - but you can still run Windows under vmware or use > win4lin. > > The peecees running Linux will integrate much more nicely with your > mainframes running Linux;-) > > > > -- > > > Cheers > John. > > Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at > http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb > >
