[Gllug] Bringing home the revolution

[Dylan]

On Saturday 19 April 2003 11:07, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> As (most of us) are off work for a few days I thought I'd ask a general
> question or two.
>
>
> 1. When will the big breakthough come? Is it here already (servers) and we
> should stop worrying about desktops?

For day-to-day office and home use (wp, browsing, email, calendar, etc.) I 
can't see any difficulty - my mother (60yo technophobe) didn't notice it 
wasn't windows until she couldn't find a menu entry for some MS program. The 
issue has to be ease of installation and configuration.

>
> 2. Does it matter anyway - would a world without MS be a better place or
> not?

The aims and objectives would exist in whatever company (or companies) was in 
their place, sfaics. They certainly aren't restricted to MS, are they.

>
>
> From my personal pov I think we are still too surrounded in mystery, too
> offten thought of as CLI freaks. Where I work the sysadmin runs a Windows
> network, and he's quite good at it - but he's resistant to the way I have
> brought a couple of 'nix servers (reusing old hardware, so costing little
> but my time), because he thinks it's a far more "difficult" technology and
> what if I feel under a bus ---- who would handle the squid server then?
>
> Of course, a lot of this is tied up in the whole hacker culture thing.
> Linux is fun after all and we are deliberately counter cultural....

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