On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 at 13:59 -0700, Steve wrote: > The person in charge of IT there is pretty technically proficient. > We were planning to test all the windows apps in wine first, but even > if they didn't work in Linux, they could keep the XP desktops and just > migrate the mail/file/print server. > > The big question is... Do they have anything running that they depend > on, that they aren't taking into consideration. > Thats pretty much my only worry with it. > > Linux isn't uber anymore folks. My 10 year old niece runs it > exclusively on her laptop. Her mother is the "sys-admin" for their > home. Neither of these people are really "computer people". My 70 > something year old mother runs her Neuros OSD and even upgraded her > own firmware the other night, she called me and let me know... I'm so > impressed :) > My wife (who owns a Mac incidently), recommended to her girlfriend > that she ditch windows and install Linux.
I can almost admin linux in my sleep, and I would guess this transition would take me 1-2 weeks to really iron out. Before I was a professional sysadmin I knew linux quite well, but it would have taken me 1 month at least, probably more. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
