[Tfug] Any Linux Chix out there?

[Craig Daters]

Your not alone! I am a Graphic Artist / Systems Administrator where I work
at West Press. All of our sales and administration people use MS Office,
etc. and have Windows. A lot of our business comes from clients using MS
Office. Before I came along, they were still using Win95! with Win98
existing on a few machines.

We Graphic Artists at least have Mac's for doing our layout and design work.
Though as we have grown, we have been forced to put Windows machines next to
all of our Macs. I have upgraded everyone to at least Win2k Pro, and that
has done a lot to stabilize most of the problems we had had with Win. though
we still have occasional problems. Ours is a PostScript invironment, and due
to some of our printing devices, mostly an AppleTalk one.

The owner put in a T1 and wanted to pull in all of our hosted services
(mail, web, ftp, etc.) so yours trully had to get up to snuff with Linux in
a hurry. I have to say, that I have come to appreciate Linux more and more
everyday. What started out as a hobby at home....I have four linux servers,
two Macs, one dual boot Linux/Windows machine, and a dual boot laptop....
I'm waiting for the day though that we can totally ditch MS.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leo Przybylski" <leo@leosandbox.org>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Any Linux Chix out there?


> Once, (before I used Unix exclusively and no M$ software at all) I had a
> discussion with a really hardcore unix user. Actually, he was a kernel
> developer. He used Linux with Win4Lin and I used cygwin on Windows. We
> had a common problem, and that was (M$ Project/M$ Exchange); thus, we
> were forced into the Windows world.
>
> He said I was a "sellout" for using Windows! Of course, I countered
> because he's using Win4Lin (same difference in my opinion)! Still called
> me a "sellout." So, I set up a thin client to boot from my Windows
> machine into AIX and then I would just forward applications (X11/ICA)
> from my windows machine and a server to the thin client. That way I
> would basically be doing  almost the exact same thing as he was. I never
> got him to agree, but the fact remains there are a lot of anti-M$ out
> there that are blinded by the M$ hatred. Maybe I'm one of them. Really,
> he was the one that brought it up. I was willing to live contently with
> windows and cygwin, and working exclusively through the servers while
> updating status on Project and checking mail with Outlook. No big deal.
> The executives were trying to convert me to M$, but to no avail.
>
> I think there was a saying once, "People who live in a house with
> Windows, live in a house surrounded by Gates." Of course, I'm
paraphrasing.
>
> To me, it's no big deal if you want to use wine to play warcraft 3 or
> even if you're dual booting. Also no big deal even if you use Windows
> all of the time. My wife uses Windows because of Pagemaker, Photoshop,
> Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, etc... I know many of these
> are moving to unix or already have software counterparts on unix, but
> she's still using Windows. She started on Vms and Linux. Then, she had a
> hasty encouter with the previous Mac OS. Then Darwin came out (and for
> x86!). Even after all that, still using Windows. I don't know how it
> made it into my house. Probably was before we were even married. I'm not
> happy about having to support Windows in my home, but we have an
> agreement. Our daughter is already learning to use Linux :-D I think my
> wife's heart is still with Vms though.
>
> I hope that wasn't a rant. I just wanted to share that experience I had.
> If anyone had one similar, you are not alone.
>
> Does anyone remember Eric Brown from about 3-5 years ago? His girlfriend
> then was April something. I don't know if either of them were on this
> list or not.
>
> -Leo Przybylski
> http://foopan.leosandbox.org
> http://grow.arizona.edu