linux at work - continuing saga

[charlie bullen]

I'm doing this to document for myself and anyone else interested the trials 
and tribulations of replacing windows desktops with linux.

The owner of the company, who is a real unix/linux command line guru sat down 
at my desk today. The whole business, except for the desktops runs on either 
SCO or RedHat. He has never used a linux GUI before. The first thing he 
wanted to do was try to break the system, but since I wouldn't give him the 
root password, there was little he could do. Oddly on the server side we are 
running SCO unix and various redhat versions to operate several ecommerce 
websites, our phone system, email a fax server amoung other things, but he 
doesn't quite trust linux on the desktop. I think he was impressed with my 
KDE 3.0 though.

Regarding my linux terminal server expieriments, I was given an old derelict 
pc, which I was not able to get to work as a terminal. This was more of a 
problem with the PC though, bad mother board I believe. It would only POST if 
I jiggled it just right.

I then took a 2 year old emachine 566 celeron, disabled the harddrive and 
created a boot floppy from http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ spalled it in and it 
booted and ran fine. No big mystry though as the emachine was known to work 
with linux. Normalyy it dual boots between win98 and redhat 7.2

Today I get to take a p233 with 32megs of ram home to experiment on.

Thats it for now.

Charlie