[ubuntu-za] Hi

[Ewald Horn]

Hi folks.

Add one more to the Linux count. I had some *fun* last night with my
XP box, when it started misbehaving after I installed my 3G card in a
PCMCIA adapter. After some troubleshooting, and the required reboots,
removes, curses etc, I unplugged my data drive, popped in the Ubuntu
9.04 CD that's been staring at me for weeks and did the unthinkable :
I formatted my trusty XP machine and ended up with a spiffy-looking,
alien, unknown interface. The fun started right away, of course : No
software haha!

Ok, I managed to get things customised, have some idea of how to get
things done in the terminal (old Mandrake skills from tech days) and
am now downloading NetBeans and the JDK to see if I can do all my
development on Ubuntu. Previously I used a older machine running
OpenSuse to test my applications for Linux users, but the main aim now
is to get to the point where I only use Linux.

So thank you for this group, the mails make for interesting reading,
and I fully expect to be digging in the archives for weeks to get
myself sorted out.

Another punch-drunk newbie Linux user

Ewald

On 13/08/2009, Quintin van Rooyen <quintin.vanrooyen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/13 Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za>
>
>> Marius Bock wrote, On 13/08/2009 08:42:
>>  > I am probably one of the few lucky ones that can use Ubuntu as my daily
>> > work environment in a massive big global organisation.  At last count
>> > about 40000 of us around the would use some form of Linux for a
>> > workstation.  Unfortunately the other 360000 still uses Windows but we
>> > have an internal policy/strategy to have migrated mostly to some Linux
>> > (Red Hat, Fedora, Unbuntu, Debian or Suse/OpenSuse) by the end of 2011.
>> >
>> It would be good to have a looksee at the internal policy/strategy. It
>> might make for a good case study and help us in our spreading the word.
>
>
> Hi.
>
> Yes it would be interesting to have a look at it.
>
> In our company I am fortunate to have a boss that is open to me using Ubuntu
> (Linux mint for the last two weeks) instead of the company default of MS
> products.
>
> Adds a nice dimention and expands the kind of support we can give our
> clients.
>
>
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-- 
Ewald Horn