oi.
we run:
- smeserver as our office server. Does all that Winblows does + Exchange, ISA
server, + spam & virusmonitoring, sceduled backups etc etc. We comfortably
give that box a public IP. We also use a package called apt-cacher, which
caches the updates of our Kubuntu clients. That is saving us a hell of a lot
of bandwith.
- Run websites & Internet based software on the internet (actually, most
people who do websites run them off a linux box) The web-based apps we use:
- SugarCRM for our CRM
- MediaWiki for our Wiki
- Joomla for our website
- All staff runs Kubuntu, except for the graphic people, who insist on Adobe
software. (but Google has just injected some money in the wine project, so we
are looking forward of a Wine release that supports CS3)
- The most used applications in our office
- Firefox
- OpenOffice (wether on winblows of kubuntu)
- Quanta, for web-development
- Gimp, for graphics (reads .psd files perfectly, for non artists)
- SMB4K which is a small tool to mount Samba shares
- and some others: Kopete for chat, Amarok for music, Kaffeine for
video,
Skype, etc.
And you know what? It just works. Sure, we sometimes have a hickup. But we
would have the same thing on windows.
ah, and no virussses.
So what is it you were saying about no usage scenarios, exactly?
reinier
On Thursday 17 April 2008 15:31:03 Sanga M. Collins wrote:
> Very good point about the 'usage scenarios' I have several Linux
> computers, and apart from nagios netmon, on one of my servers, and
> Netscreen security manager on another server, I cant find anything else
> to do with Linux so my Linux laptop is gathering dust.
>
> Sanga M. Collins
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Muhumuza Brian
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:16 AM
> To: Linux Users Group Uganda
> Subject: Re: [LUG] OS X on a PC
>
> The way i see it, MUK students & people in Uganda in general don't
> use Linux because its usage scenarios are very few -- as one of the
> many possible reasons.
>
> Linux is an excellent server os, and this is said in all linux
> classes. A linux class is not complete without the "Linux Server
> Usage" scenario (HTTP, FTP, SSH, DNS, DHCP, Mail, etc).
>
> I wonder how many linux students get to deploy a linux server outside
> the class room.
>
> I also wonder how many tech guys in Uganda can say they *personally*
> have a server on the internet -- an excellent linux usage scenario.
> If it were cheap to put a computer onto the public internet, that
> would be big potential for linux deployments.
>
> We need to create many more linux usage scenarios if we want people
> to use it. Probably it's the way linux is taught. All linux classes
> focus on the server aspect of linux which, unfortunately isn't within
> the usage scope of most people *even* those that go to MUK Faculty of
> Computing.
>
> On 16 Apr 2008, at 09:00, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
>
> > Hi P.
> >
> > Maybe we should discuss why MUK students are not using linux. After
> > all this
> > is the LUG (not the AUG ;-)
> >
> > When we went to the presentation of the third year students last
> > year we saw a
> > lot of php/mysql applications. These just run and install much
> > nicer on
> > linux. That, in a normal world, would be a benifit for the students.
> >
> > As MUK is preparing students for the real world, and in the real
> > world, php &
> > mysql applications run on linux & apache mostly, training students
> > in that
> > setup is also not a bad idea.
> >
> > Well, i am preaching for my own church (and the AUG guys) again.
> >
> > Is there anything we can do to make that clear to MUK tutors &
> > students?
> >
> > rgds,
> > reinier
> >
>
>
> >> MB
>
>
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