Linux at Work - Long

Trent Shipley plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:49:02 -0700


I hereby predict that the MS-pro and server versions of Windows will have 
multiple virtual desktops.

If not in the next major release, then in the major release after that.


> One of my collegues has expressed interest in using linux also, mainly
> because of the multiple virtual desktops, The general manager has expressed
> interest because I have pointed out that it really is more effcent, given
> what we do to use the multiple desktops. The owner is interested as well,
> from a cost and efficiency standpoint and also he is a hadrcore unix guy
> (we have SCO servers and RedHat servers) who is sold on Linux as a server
> but has never used it as a desktop. He, by the way reformats his hard drive
> and reinstalls windows at least twice a year.
>