I've looked at rolling some linux desktops out. Here's a list of problems I ran into
KDE and Gnome, neither runs well on 64 megs of ram.
No easy migration. I inherited exchange. I dont want to completely replace it over night with a nix mail server, in addition to rolling out linux desktops This would be a nightmare. So where's the easy migration from exchange to linux? The only one I've seen is Evolution, and it's exchange support isn't done.
I thought the various Office's were fairly nice, at least for what most people in the company use Office for.
We have various active x required custom web based apps that are intrical to our business.
This is the biggest. We have an AIX backend with IIS front end, but the company that makes this package decided to write all the software in active x.
What do people suggest for PIM? Is there palm support in PIM's? I haven't looked at this area yet.
If exchange support came out, I have certain departments that don't require much else (take a guess..if you say sales, give yourself a cookie!), but who wants the technical hassle of supporting two(or more if you count various flavors of windows) OS'S?
I came up with a few more problems, but don't have time to add more. I'm looking forward to any naive answers from linux zealots that don't understand how corporations work.
I do not agree with this post. First off, if you believe anything Jon Katz says, you are an idiot and doomed to be a failure. Quit the IT world now, you are not suited to it just as Jon Katz is not.
Je souhaite les formes multiples de la torture et de la mort sur Jon Katz et prie cela pendant un jour où il sera décapité dans un accident anormal tout en écrivant ses mots de mal
El primer poste es una pérdida de espacio. El tablero del escritorio es agradable, pero donde están las aplicaciones decentes. La nueva versión se ejecutará en 64 megs de la RAM correctamente?
I'm going to be posting a new security exploit to "The Ultimate Stem Cell" on bugtraq within a few days, because the Univ of Minn won't answer my emails, and the fact I want to show i'm a bad ass hax0r. Check it.
I wish you were Christopher Reeve, eating mush through a straw. Or if you claim he did that to himself, how about Stephen Hawking? Who knows, you might make a good vegetable.
The fact is, the medical community didn't want to use forcefully aborted fetuses. therefore, the abortion issue has very little to do with this.
I agree with this post. I encourage everyone to learn the difference, and quit crying when software/drivers/etc are given to you for free but isn't open source.
I agree with this post. It's only a troll to biased linux zealots. The rest of us who live in reality, it's interesting, and I would mod as such if i could.
If you would like to contribute to this reply, please take a look at the current text, and make sure and release the original text with your changes and you cannot charge for the original text. Thank you.
not digital? So what is the medium. Toilet Paper? If it's a paper book, how is it considered "Open" other than the obvious meaning? This is a completely stupid question picked by an open source zealot that has nothing to do with anything. Also, I wish linux zealots would stop confusing the phrases "open source" and "free". One does not beget the other.
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not really. The gui itself isn't the major linux hurdle.
I've looked at rolling some linux desktops out. Here's a list of problems I ran into
KDE and Gnome, neither runs well on 64 megs of ram.
No easy migration. I inherited exchange. I dont want to completely replace it over night with a nix mail server, in addition to rolling out linux desktops This would be a nightmare. So where's the easy migration from exchange to linux? The only one I've seen is Evolution, and it's exchange support isn't done.
I thought the various Office's were fairly nice, at least for what most people in the company use Office for.
We have various active x required custom web based apps that are intrical to our business.
This is the biggest. We have an AIX backend with IIS front end, but the company that makes this package decided to write all the software in active x.
What do people suggest for PIM? Is there palm support in PIM's? I haven't looked at this area yet.
If exchange support came out, I have certain departments that don't require much else (take a guess..if you say sales, give yourself a cookie!), but who wants the technical hassle of supporting two(or more if you count various flavors of windows) OS'S?
I came up with a few more problems, but don't have time to add more. I'm looking forward to any naive answers from linux zealots that don't understand how corporations work.
I agree with this post
I see your 20 years and raise you a CCIE
Jon Katz is a fool and modern day snake oil salesman, therefore anyone who believes him is a fool.
I do not agree with this post. First off, if you believe anything Jon Katz says, you are an idiot and doomed to be a failure. Quit the IT world now, you are not suited to it just as Jon Katz is not.
"Oh people still remember that Junis/Afghanistan thing? I thought for sure people would have forgotten about that by now" - Jon Katz
your girlfriend won't let you Shave her Balls?
i agree with this post. Except I take exception to calling Steve Jobs a "small country"
Je souhaite les formes multiples de la torture et de la mort sur Jon Katz et prie cela pendant un jour où il sera décapité dans un accident anormal tout en écrivant ses mots de mal
El primer poste es una pérdida de espacio. El tablero del escritorio es agradable, pero donde están las aplicaciones decentes. La nueva versión se ejecutará en 64 megs de la RAM correctamente?
I'm going to be posting a new security exploit to "The Ultimate Stem Cell" on bugtraq within a few days, because the Univ of Minn won't answer my emails, and the fact I want to show i'm a bad ass hax0r. Check it.
I wish you were Christopher Reeve, eating mush through a straw. Or if you claim he did that to himself, how about Stephen Hawking? Who knows, you might make a good vegetable.
The fact is, the medical community didn't want to use forcefully aborted fetuses. therefore, the abortion issue has very little to do with this.
will they still need fetuses? Will this finally make Bush + his pro-life friends happy? Screw parapalegics, we've got to protect already dead fetuses.
Non sono d'accordo con questo alberino
Slashdot trolls have an obsession with anuses. I will make note of this in my forthcoming open source book, "The Psychology of Slashdot Trolls"
Now you will see the power of my agreement with this post.
It will be titled "The psychology of the Slashdot Troll". If you would like to contribute to this project, please contact slashdottroll@hotmail.com
Also, i'm considering another project I'm currentlyt calling "Why I despise the linux zealots"
I agree with my post.
I agree with this post. I encourage everyone to learn the difference, and quit crying when software/drivers/etc are given to you for free but isn't open source.
I agree with this post. Not the original dribble, but LordNimon's reply. Thank you
I agree with this post. It's only a troll to biased linux zealots. The rest of us who live in reality, it's interesting, and I would mod as such if i could.
If you would like to contribute to this reply, please take a look at the current text, and make sure and release the original text with your changes and you cannot charge for the original text. Thank you.
some asshole? You're not cut out to be a capitalist pig. Move to china please and leave cutthroat financials to people like me.
I don't agree with this post.
not digital? So what is the medium. Toilet Paper? If it's a paper book, how is it considered "Open" other than the obvious meaning? This is a completely stupid question picked by an open source zealot that has nothing to do with anything. Also, I wish linux zealots would stop confusing the phrases "open source" and "free". One does not beget the other.
I agree with my own post.
I don't agree with this post. I do, however, agree with this post
I agree with this post