Re: Linux at work (real world)

["C. Janzen" <cjanzen -at- mindspring -dot- com>]

VMWare lets you run both Windows & Linux stuff on the same machine at 
the same time. I don't use it anymore (for a variety of reasons having 
nothing to do with the product), but it's a cool deal.

Also, I knew some some developers who used Linux as their regular 
environment, even though they were writing software for Windows. They 
worked in Linux and used VMWare to do any Windows stuff they HAD to do. 
They had an array of team-oriented project development tools, including 
software that let them have virtual meetings and office space (I want to 
say it was like CVS, CSV, SCV or something like that). I, 
unfortuneately, have been gone long enough I can't remember the other 
software products' names (sigh). The team almost exclusively 
telecommuted as well. It was a beautiful thing. GNOME's a great desktop, 
as was KDE (GNOME fan, here though). I've heard the new commerical 
implementations of Linux (like Red Hat, &c.) are user friendly and don't 
require as much tweaking, at least for the average Joe and Jane.

Don't know if any of the above helped. Just my $.0195 (downwardly 
adjusted after editing all day...)
Catherine

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