--- Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:21:44AM +0000, Michael > Tinsay wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm toying around the possibility of deploying > linux > > in some of the desktops where I work. Just want > to > > know if there're companies out there who have done > so. > > Hope to learn from your experiences. > > A good first step would be first to wean people away > from using MSIE and > Outlook (which in my experience cause 90% of all > security problems in a > typical corporate network) and using a Free Software > equivalent of the > same, like Firefox and Thunderbird. Then maybe you > can wean them away > from using Office by installing the Windows version > of OpenOffice. Most > people will never use any other applications besides > these and hence you > can easily defenestrate their computer totally and > get them to use these > same programs under KDE or Gnome. It then isn't > such a terrible shock. >
My thoughts also. And actually, I'm about to rollout Thunderbird (internal mail only) and OpenOffice to all my users. For now, I'm looking at putting a number of "specific-use" PCs on Linux, as these PCs are mainly used for accessing our corporate apps on an RS/6000 via telnet. --- mike t. > -- > dido > Osama bin Laden: The Emmanuel Goldstein of our > generation. > http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go > to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
