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Story: So why not put Linux on your business desktops?

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"Ironic that the text is unreadable in my Linux desktop"

.. very 'ironic'.. as Firefox supports html quite well ;-), & I am reading & writing from a Mandriva 2006/Firefox desktop.. Comments like yours are simply to add 'fear' to the minds of people who are unfamiliar with Linux/X/Firefox. To those who wonder, in my vast experience with Windows (dating from the 2.xx days & on) & Linux, since the release of Redhat 8.x, Mandrake 8.x etc, & on, it is more likely that a windows machine will have/develope problems than a Linux machine. That is a claim I will stand by. It is true that the adminstration of a Linux machine is different than say, XP, which was different than 2000, which was different than ME (a package that should have never seen the light of a monitor!) which was different than 98, etc... Bottom Line, once you learn the Linux way, it will not change on you with every release/upgrade. Try Ubuntu. Search on-line for add on packages/help. You will be very suprised. Ubuntu, by default, gives the first user created (Linux completely supports multiple users, simultaneously, each with private disk & memory space (Windows can't do that)) 'admisntration rights'.. They must enter their password to perform these acts, thereby preventing code from being run with out their awareness (MS's achillies heel). Once you get used to multiple desktops (the end of window clutter!) & the many features of X (the GUI system), you will never be able to go back.. It's like the difference between a pinto (with fancy tires) and a porsche (with real tires & a suspension to go with them!). The porsche takes some getting use to.. but once you learn it, Wow!

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