Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 2:45 pm, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! On Friday 14 Nov 2003 9:09 pm, Lanman

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 19 Nov 2003 2:54 pm, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! On Monday 10 November 2003 11:50 am

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Tango Echo
--- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set up a page for you, containing the single word 'placeholder', on which you can build, if that would help. For any potential contributors who don't want to learn the few simple formatting commands, they can use html tags instead. Just

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 2:50 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set up a page for you, containing the single word 'placeholder', on which you can build, if that would help. For any potential contributors who don't want to learn the few simple

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Lanman
T.E. - I signed up for Twiki, Finally! Now what to I do for entering information, and how many can I put in? Read your post back to Anne, but I don't agree with you about the worth of this page. I think it's great! The most significant reason for this is because this will be a list of scenarios by

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:24 pm, Tango Echo wrote: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BusinessUser Anne Ok, I threw something up on that location. I wasn't able to add the industry pages because I don't know how to branch off from the main index page. After more thoroughly browsing

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 9:09 pm, Lanman wrote: T.E. - I signed up for Twiki, Finally! Now what to I do for entering information, and how many can I put in? That's the beauty of TWiki - if you feel that it fits, it goes in! I'm looking forward to what arrives. Come on, everyone. Get your

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 11:50 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:19 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:49 pm, Tango Echo wrote: The Twiki suggestion is great. One addition to it may be more of an industry HOWTO. For example, people could post HOWTOs that

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 11:01 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all support/updates/fixes for 98 have ceased. Ummm...No. They just released fixes for Win98

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-13 Thread robin
understand it; the sysadmins are all using Linux anyway! Sir Robin Tony. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:49 pm, Tango Echo wrote: The Twiki suggestion is great. One addition to it may be more of an industry HOWTO. For example, people could post HOWTOs that pertain to their industry. Weather its government, insurance, production, retail, or something else, each

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Robin Turner
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
. -Original Message- From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all support/updates/fixes for 98 have ceased. Ummm...No. They just released fixes for Win98 again. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-12 Thread Roland Hughes
That's only because they want 98 to be able to get worm's etc, like 2k and xp. Roly On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:01 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Anders Lind
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business because of Linux and what interesting things

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Very cool! Open-Source is all about choice, and FreeBSD is certainly a good choice. I find that a lot of people start with Mandrake because it's one of the easiest distro's to start with, but I also see a lot of users switch to other Open-Source solutions once they have gained some experience

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
Way to go Franki ! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread mike
Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? Lanman Lanman, I use Linux mandrake 9.1 both at home and at work .( writing from there now ) I work at an Information management company that does record storage,

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread brian
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up ! Lanman wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Lanman
I think that you'll find that this is the case in most installations Mike. Usually, once it's set up and configured, Linux will usually bore you to tears in how dependable it is. Unless your clients or employers require additional administration or servers/services, you'll typically find that

RE: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Tony S. Sykes
In my corner of the office I have installed Mandrake 9.1 (started at 8.0) with Hylafax and it does a little web hosting (internally) and it also does remote checks on customers servers texting problems to support mobiles. The company has opted for RedHat in the only other area for testing our

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:50 am, Anders Lind wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:40:18 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Warren Post
My principal business is a restaurant http://pizzapizza.vze.com/ and I've been running Linux Mandrake on our office computer since 8.0. The system is more stable and our data is no longer hostage to Microsoft's proprietary formats. One of the reasons that made me look at alternatives to Windows

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Urwin
I'm not using it for business, but as a long time IT professional, Linux is at least as easy to maintain as Win2k server. Added to which, the software is a lot cheaper and the support is a lot better. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El lun, 10-11-2003 a las 12:40, Lanman escribió: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I was hired in a cybercafé last month. My job is to completely migrate it to Linux. (gaming machines included). Not an easy task as you can