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Re: Anyone else going to switch to Fedora?
de El Gee 04/07/2006 09:04
"Mark Warner" <mhwarner.inhibitions@insightbb.com> wrote in
news:49nek4Fp5ho2U1@individual.net:
> FreeGPL.com wrote:
>> I am faced with a decision soon as our company is still on Windows
>> 2000 and need to upgrade.
>>
>> I've been playing with Fedora Core 4 and I've got to say, I see no
>> reason why we shouldn't migrate our entire organization to it! It
>> will definitely save us a bundle in fees and we can spend a bit of
>> that money to help support Open Source.
>>
>> Evolution is way better at managing imap email, sharing calendar
>> information and it comes stock. OpenOffice has also done an amazing
>> job with the remaining programs our business really needs.
>>
>> Our network is linux based so aside from some initial difficulties
>> with learning the short cut keys is there anything else I'm missing
>> about migrating?
>>
>> I'd appreciate your help!
>
> Not sure I understand why one would have a *need* to upgrade from W2K,
> but that's not the question, is it?
End of Life for it (Win2K) is this year, June of 2006, isn't it?
> Might consider going dual boot. Would make the transition less
> traumatic, I'm sure. I'm a recent convert to linux, but haven't
> totally severed all ties with Windows. Nonetheless, I find myself
> booting to linux more and more often. I suspect that one day I'll
> realize that Windows is my "other" OS, instead of the other way
> around.
Agreed
> Please keep us posted. I for one would be interested in how the whole
> thing shakes out.
>
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