I read an interview with an airforce sysadmin where he
was asked about linux and other free OS's. He replied
that they use lilnux for many of their servers (in
some cases against the wishes of their superiors) and
windows for desktop machines. His arguement was that
they have to have a standardized interface on as many
machines as they can. This is so Joe Blow can be
transfered from miami to germany, go into his office
and do his work without retraining. He also mentioned
that the majority of users are immediately familiar
with a windows interface while the average user would
be lost on a gnome/windowmaker/kde desktop.
Dacia
--- patrick darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Romanator wrote:
>
> > "Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > > counterparts. Nothing available can touch
> Outlook and Outlook express.
> > >
> > > Have you heard of the latest security issue with
> Outlook. Anybody sending you
> > > mail can run their code on your machine when you
> open the email. It has
> > > something to do with Outlook's ActiveX engine.
> Just a note, just in case
> > > somebody formats your hard drive.
> >
> > Yup. It's amazing what you can do to Outlook.
> >
> > --
> > Roman
> > Registered Linux User #179293
>
> whats really amazing to me is the u s governemnt
> along with other governments
> keep right on using that other operating system. i
> have read a while back
> that with the i love u virus that even some
> government computers were
> put down. it seems the viruses are getting worse and
> worse and the u s
> government just stands by and does nothing when it
> could make the
> move to Linux and have much more secure and much
> more powerful
> systems. its just amazing. and think of all the
> money they would
> save.
>
>
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