Re: [SLE] ...and speaking of SuSE / Novell...

From: Louis Richards (louis_at_ldrit.com)
Date: 11/19/05

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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:37:54 -0500

    On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:46 pm, Andre Truter wrote:
    <SNIP>
    > I thought about it a bit and I can see valid reasons for an
    > experienced sysadmin to install a full desktop on SLES:
    > 1) If you want to use it for a desktop workstation (You lost all your
    > SUSE Linux or NLD media or something) :-)
    >
    > 2) You set up a LTSP server where people will run desktops from dumb
    > terminals.
    >

    3) To run Matrix screensaver.

    4) Management that was barely convinced to setup a Linux proxy server can walk
    by and say things like: "Wow ... look at that thing ... It's just working
    away like crazy" due to reason 3.

    Seriously, the above company has since had me replace their NT file server
    with Linux ... yes ... it has the screensaver too. I don't have the heart to
    tell the guy what it is at this point. 

    -- 
Louis Richards
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