On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 12:48:56 at 12:48:56PM -0700, Alex Daniloff (alex@daniloff.com) wrote:
True Linux experts will use Linux even at their work places and convince and teach their colleagues and management how to do the same.
Where do you work? On which planet, I mean? Here on Earth, in 90/95% of cases, true "real world workers" will have to use whatever their IT department will have installed on their computers. They won't have compilers available, or the root/administrator password, because system administration is not in their job description. The great majority of the workforce is not allowed to mess with their PC's inside no more than they can say "I'll throw all this cubicle junk, and replace it with furniture I like". They will be fined or worse if they pop up one morning and say "hey, I'm not writing that report in Word: I'm going to spend the whole morning installing XYZ Linux, instead. Oh, and next week don't schedule any appointment with customers, I'm going to show you how to convert all your bookmarks, databases and addressbook" Even if, at home, they write drivers in assembler for sheer fun, or recompile the kernel every other hour "just because" Preaching Free/OS SW is good and needed, but doing it with that attitude is not going to accomplish much. Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ "Get real! This is a discussion group, not a helpdesk. You post something, we discuss its implications. If the discussion happens to answer a question you've asked, that's incidental." -- nobull in comp.lang.perl.misc