| Nowadays the company I am in uses the Cisco VPN which, at least, works | on my ancient PowerPC PowerBook G4 as well as Windoze.
Works on Linux too.. there's a standard Cisco VPN client with most distros. With Ubuntu - it's as easy as a right click on the network icon and selecting 'VPN'... > I recall that the CIO's direction that all internal websites MUST be > browser agnostic (is this still true?) was "fine" but the external > travel planning site required M$'s InterNyet Exploder which meant you > could not completely abandon Windows as a platform (dammit). At least > the Linux platform made good use of both cycles and RAM in the > laptops. (I sometmes miss the T42.) > > Yes - at this point IE is not required and it seems like Firefox is more the 'norm' as the browser to use. It's been awhile since any of the business apps (like travel) including externals has required IE. There are still a few things out on the intranet I run across that want IE - but nothing business critical. All in all - I think we've done an excellent job though - the best I'm aware of for any major company.. I've been running with a Linux laptop the last 4 years and even at clients it hasn't been an issue (though sometimes the folks that scan laptops before allowing you to connect will scratch their heads). Scott Rohling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
