Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: ... I'll be using it for high-end 3D visualization, high throughput data processing (filtering many Gbytes) and at night our developers will run their builds on it. Should be fun... The system I want to see is a bunch of Apple G5s doing distributed

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Hipp
Alan Jackson wrote: Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons,

Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Alan Jackson
Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons, 4 Gb ram, and an

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Alan Jackson wrote: Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant, because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the next couple of years (about 5000 systems). I'm the local guinea pig. It's

Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Ben Duncan
Same reason some of my Servers that exposed to the internet run COL E2.3 - with all the latest patches/security updates - of course. BFWIW - I am deploying SuSe 8.3 on desktop/Workstations these days. It seems to be really stable and flat out WORKS with everthing I have thrown at it, at the

[OT] Re: Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

2003-09-27 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 10:30, Ben Duncan wrote: Same reason some of my Servers that exposed to the internet run COL E2.3 - with all the latest patches/security updates - of course. BFWIW - I am deploying SuSe 8.3 on desktop/Workstations these days. It seems to be really stable and flat out