From the article: "The short story is that Ubuntu can do everything I need to do on a business desktop..." Wait a minute. The author then goes on to say things like, "Exchange support seemed to be rather buggy and crash prone, and because Evolution is integrated into parts of the desktop, my desktop was soon littered with the burnt, twisted corpses of panel applets and daemons." Give me a break. "So, not exactly a quick and painless set up, but having done it once it would probably only take five minutes or so to do it again... though I'm a little concerned about the practicality of rolling out a large number of Ubuntu clients in an enterprise environment." And you're advocating its readiness in the same piece?
I love Linux and I use Ubuntu, but let's be honest here: If you're asking whether it can do these things, then the answer is yes, but it's a hack. What kind of acceptable business software in this decade requires that we edit text files to get it working? To be fair, Ubuntu is being used in a way it's not exactly designed to do- it's being integrated into a Microsoft shop. The fact that Linux can do that at all is commendable, and I take my hat off to the Linux community. In all honesty, however, unless you're a Linux guru, the human interface for this kind of setup is just not there in Ubuntu- yet.
Stripe Snoop was discussed in detail by its author on a show called Binary Revolution Radio awhile back. You can download the ep, #56, at: http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html/ -enjoy, it's a really good show!
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From the article: "The short story is that Ubuntu can do everything I need to do on a business desktop..." Wait a minute. The author then goes on to say things like, "Exchange support seemed to be rather buggy and crash prone, and because Evolution is integrated into parts of the desktop, my desktop was soon littered with the burnt, twisted corpses of panel applets and daemons." Give me a break. "So, not exactly a quick and painless set up, but having done it once it would probably only take five minutes or so to do it again... though I'm a little concerned about the practicality of rolling out a large number of Ubuntu clients in an enterprise environment." And you're advocating its readiness in the same piece? I love Linux and I use Ubuntu, but let's be honest here: If you're asking whether it can do these things, then the answer is yes, but it's a hack. What kind of acceptable business software in this decade requires that we edit text files to get it working? To be fair, Ubuntu is being used in a way it's not exactly designed to do- it's being integrated into a Microsoft shop. The fact that Linux can do that at all is commendable, and I take my hat off to the Linux community. In all honesty, however, unless you're a Linux guru, the human interface for this kind of setup is just not there in Ubuntu- yet.
Does anyone else see what I see? All but one of these is a sequel! Where, O where, have the original fun-to-play games gone? :(
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correction: http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html
Stripe Snoop was discussed in detail by its author on a show called Binary Revolution Radio awhile back. You can download the ep, #56, at: http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html/ -enjoy, it's a really good show!
Hmm, what kind of further motivation will these people require to lend a hand in fighting spam? Until they see why, they won't.