[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

Trent Melcher tmelcher at trilogytel.com
Fri May 7 21:01:17 UTC 2004


Thanks for the offer but no,  when we do it my bosses have opted for the
easy way and buy the laptops already pre-loaded with linux.  Just trying to
figure out which Distro and WM is most forgiving to the PC challenged...I
know what I would install for myself, but I have a few users that are not
bright when it comes to PC's even Win98 is out there for them... 

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Sean
Edwards
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:38 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: RE: [olug] Microsoft is out of control!

Do you need any help with that?

-=Sean=-

--- Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> How many boxes are you talking about??
> 
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> 402-894-6283
> 
> >>> tmelcher at trilogytel.com 05/07/04 15:26 PM >>>
> My company is still using Win98, on 450 - 900Mhz boxes.  Havent seen 
> anys need whatsoever to upgrade to XP....all our servers and systems 
> we support are Linux/Unix/SCO, Hopefully by the end of this year we 
> will replace every desktop we have with laptops(running Linux)....then 
> we will be Microsoft free.
> 
> Trent
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org
> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Hull
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:02 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Microsoft is out of control!
> 
> > >>> phil at brutsche.us 5/6/2004 >>>
> > thehaas at binary.net wrote:
> >
> > How many people are going to sit around with their
> current machines
> > for
> > 3 years?  I know I won't.
> > --
> >
> > Phil Brutsche
> > phil at brutsche.us
> 
> Three years? Before I had two kids to support a three year replacement 
> cycle was more than reasonable. Now, the fastest Linux server in my 
> basement is six years old and still working fine. Even my laptop is 
> closing in on 3.5 years and I won't be replacing it anytime soon.
> 
> Within the next year, my work will be throwing machines away that a 
> superior to the hardware I'm running at home. I feel a dumpster dive 
> coming on.
> 
> --
> Dave Hull
> http://insipid.com
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug



	
		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover
_______________________________________________
OLUG mailing list
OLUG at olug.org
http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug




More information about the OLUG mailing list