[Gllug] RedHat

[Jim Bailey]

On Monday, November 5, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Jackson, Harry wrote:

> Hi all
> Virus (Must be protected before I start). ????????????? Under 
> Investigation
> Mail (Very important and critical that all existing mail can be
> read).?????????????? Under Investigation

What anti-virus do you use already at work if it is one of the big boys 
Sophos, Norton etc. then you will be paying for a per machine license but 
should they should have plenty spare due to pricing structures check with 
IT and suck up! ;-)  If not download a trial demo of Sophos.

> Office (Must be compatible with Word, Excel, PowerPoint I am not sure if
> there is a Project equivalent) Star Office. I have also had a look at the
> Binary Code License that they comes with Star Office and from what I 
> gather
> it is completely free for internal use. I find this hard to believe as I 
> was
> expecting the normal "free to single user companies have to pay" 
> agreement.
Star office was released as open office under the GPL Open Office 6.0 is 
available for download from Sun but it is still very beta 5.2 is stable 
but ugly and nasty with an integrated desktop.  There are also 
alternatives such as Abi word and Koffice but I don't think that their M$ 
compatibility is as good.  IMHO Star office is not about Sun making a buck 
from office apps though I am sure that that would be very nice. but about 
dropping a big spanner in the works of one of Microsoft's biggest earners.

> Shares (Must be able to connect and read/write to current shared drives)
> This should be easy enough to do (he says)

Loads of stuff on doing this including connecting to exchange.

> Web (Connect to internet via Proxy). Just set it up to use a proxy. Unsure
> as to how authentication will work but I know this can be done.

Easy enough even for me.

> Applications (These are all the apps that we use as a business but not
> everyone uses these and I know several upgrade windows or *nix clients).

This is very application specific but a lot of the larger corporations 
have been porting to Linux Oracle and Saps are the two big ones that 
spring to mind. Check to see if the specific application has a browser 
interface which should work on just about anything even my 386 running 
win3.1.
>
> It should be an interesting few weeks. So be prepared for some daft
> questions.
>
> Regards;
> Harry Jackson.
>
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