You could stick vmware on SuSe, so you can have a happy MS window anytime the boss walks by. Not that I'd recommend you do that, of course ;-) Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than Aufwiedersehen -- ps. sorry about the ubs sig. (below) - can't get rid of it, for the moment :-\

-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Donnelly [mailto:kevin@dotmon.com] Sent: Freitag, 15. November 2002 13:58 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] help with battle to switch to SuSE

On Friday 15 November 2002 11:34 am, Damon Register wrote:

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On the work side, the Linux fight isn't going so well. My computer which is dual boot with Windows 95 and SuSE 8.0 is beginning to fail. My boss told me to put in an order for a new PC. I did that and specified SuSE 8.1. Management didn't say much about the dual Xeon 2.2 GHz processors but they said I will probably not get Linux. I was given a load of @#$%$# about how no one else in the company is going that way, Linux isn't supported, blah blah. With my recent experiences I am more convinced than ever that Linux is the way to go but the fight is going to be difficult here. Has anyone else in this list had this experience? Have you been able to win the fight? Any suggestions for me?

If I were you, I would do it by stealth. If you make a major fuss about getting SuSE, and then have any install/usage problems, you will have egg on face.

Just accept the PC, with Windows whatever on it, and then take your discs in from home and install SuSE on another partition. This means that you can continue using Windows while you iron out any problems. Once you have everything running the way you want, then start using Linux day-to-day. If you can do all your work with it, then that is the best advertisement for it, and I suspect you will then get queries from others at work who want to "try" it.

Kevin

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