On Sunday 08 October 2006 09:23, Andy Leach wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm starting a new job next week, the management are happy for me to > take XP off the provided machine and put a Linux desktop on if it'll > keep me happy and make me more productive :o) > > I've never needed to run linux in a windows environment before but I > understand that I'll need to set up Samba to let me talk to the servers. > With my 'less than guru' level of knowledge I wondered what distro(s) > you'd recommend for this task? > > I'd like it to be KDE based and as quick and trivial to set up as > possible as the current developer leaves on a Friday and I start the > following Monday... > > Cheers, > > Andy
If exchange-server is part of their office, I have found in my new firm that evolution (as provided by ubuntu) connects nicely to exchange-server. As i haven't used outlook for years, i cannot tell you exactly what is and isn't supported, but certainly basic functionality works fine.
