I work for one of the companies mentioned in one of the earlier replies. I'd be willing to answer some questions you may have. In our case we have never looked back or regretted the migration to Linux. We were given a 6 month deadline to migrate and have been running smooth for nearly 6 years now without MS.
Immersion. If your in IT, then you understand computers. That said immerse yourself in any of the schools of thought and you'll pick it up. Case in point. I started Computers on Apple II and IIgs in '83-'89. '93 graduated High School and went to College. Had to learn basic Unix to do email, usenet, and compiling C progs my 1st year in College in '93-'94. Come '05 I hadn't really touched nix since college. Now I work for an entirely MS free company. We use Suse and Solaris only. Picked it up in no time. I will concede though the learning curve may be higher in a mixed environment though. If your not wary of command line though Nix remains fairly unchanged. If you grew up knowing MSDOS, Nix commmand line is a piece of cake. Just my opinion though.
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I work for one of the companies mentioned in one of the earlier replies. I'd be willing to answer some questions you may have. In our case we have never looked back or regretted the migration to Linux. We were given a 6 month deadline to migrate and have been running smooth for nearly 6 years now without MS.
Immersion. If your in IT, then you understand computers. That said immerse yourself in any of the schools of thought and you'll pick it up. Case in point. I started Computers on Apple II and IIgs in '83-'89. '93 graduated High School and went to College. Had to learn basic Unix to do email, usenet, and compiling C progs my 1st year in College in '93-'94. Come '05 I hadn't really touched nix since college. Now I work for an entirely MS free company. We use Suse and Solaris only. Picked it up in no time. I will concede though the learning curve may be higher in a mixed environment though. If your not wary of command line though Nix remains fairly unchanged. If you grew up knowing MSDOS, Nix commmand line is a piece of cake. Just my opinion though.
Running Linux and Firefox 1.5.0.3. None of the galleries show up. Is this an IE only thing?