* Damon Register;
If you are fairly new to linux, you would be better served by running it yourself at home for a few months anyway to make sure you really know what I would hardly consider myself on the same level as guys like Togan Muftuoglu but I have been tinkering since 1999 (SuSE 6.2). I have purchased several Linux programming books and have experimented a little with programming for Linux
Well I can say you are way ahead of me and my programming skills is probably worse then you can imagine :-) To give you an insight, I am Business and Mangament oriented as this is what I studied. Yes I play with the computers since 1978 ( could be 1979 I can not recall) and my best program I have ever used is Lotus Manuscript That was much better than Microsoft Word. For 20 years I conducted Scuba Diving courses training more than 10 000 people and I have been a PADI Course Director since 1993 training over 500 instructors with different nationalities and running courses in Greece, Russia England Turkey. I made (and making) money by teaching people how to make bubbles under the water and I sell the idea of how to make money by teaching this to other people. So my expertise is selling dreams and making them reality. I have other capablities under my hat like running seminars on Team building, Teaching Harvard Negotiaton Approach, and couple of Sales and Marketing Seminars. But no way I know anyhing about programming ( I can do what I need no further is necessary) The only thing that stops me going in to a Linux business is, it is misunderstood by the community in general much like diving and I had one experience with this mentality I would think twice for the second venture. In a business environment it is not the employee's time it is the owner's time that could being wasted. It is also management's vision where the company is heading to and deploying the tools to achieve this goal should be aligned with the vision. I would really love to see many companies use Open Source Operating Systems applications and this is only possible by a systematic approach ( I would call this ,with your pardon, brainwashing). This is what companies like SuSE doing OpenExchange , SuSE Linux desktop and not to forget the United Linux initiative. So rather rather sneaking in SuSE in a computer provided by the BOSS you have to use a well planned strategy Sun Tzu said: Strategy is the great Work of the organization, Insituations of life and death it is the Tao of the survival or extinction Its Study cannot be neglected Have a nice weekend Ps Ckm we are going to Tai restaurant together with Peter anything you want special :-) -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx