Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 10:33:44 am Ben Kevan wrote:
Just FYI,
Found it to be an interesting read:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/which_linux_makes_the_best_business_windows_ replacement_desktop
I like how Novell is finally trying to get into the SMB market. I saw that last week at their local conference.
I tend to agree with this quote: "Last, but never least for most businesses, SLED is the most friendly of the desktop Linuxes when it comes to dealing with Microsoft Windows servers. Many people don't like that Novell and Microsoft have gotten all buddy-buddy over the last few years, but if you want Linux and Windows to co-operate in the work place, SUSE is your best choice."
Except for Kwallet not able to store SMB passwords, the integration is very good. I spent all weekend working at home. I had Virtual Box running Vista, while connected to my corporate network. I had the main machine running all sorts of tasks.
If you run kde 3.5, kde control center has the answer under "Internet & Network", "Local Network Browsing". You can set the SMB user and password there and enjoy seamless browsing of XP shares both anonymous and secured to which you have access under the username/password credentials.
I had several documents and spreadsheets to review and did so in OOo (including a few XLSX docs).
I also needed to take a few powerpoint presentations I'm doing this week and turn them into flash for web distribution, then email the resulting files out. Not a problem.
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