linux at work

[charlie bullen]

This is more of a report that either a question or an answer. Fairly long.

I got my employer to let me bring a linux box to work to use  (Suse 7.3 Kde 
2.2,  950 AMD 128 megs ram) . I have been using linux at home for 1.5 years 
off and on, but this is new for me as at home I can do what ever I want and 
at work, I have tasks assigned to me that must get done in a timley manner in 
the way the "boss" wants. I am pleased to report that linux has met the 
challange and in fact in some ways is easier and more versitile than the 
other OS I've been forced to use.

I have to have word processing and spread sheet available, for which I am 
using open office 1.0. I am using Opera for a browser, but I think I will 
change to Mozilla. Konquerer doesn't seem to work on one of out internal 
sites. 

One problem with opera though is that I have several groups of tasks. Each 
group requires several programs, including at times 3 or 4 browser windows. I 
can use virtual desktops to segregate the task groupings, which has worked 
out well, but opera presents a problem as all the opera windows are opening 
in the same window. If I used Mozilla, could I open a Mozilla session in a 
virtual window and then keeping that session there, open 1 or more sessions 
in another window?

Enough rambling for now. If there is any interest I'll keep up the reports of 
using linux as a desktop in the workplace.

Charlie