Nacho-BSD

[Steve Bergman]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> You would be hard pressed to convince my customers of that.  It's far
> easier to answer the cost argument in a business environment just in the
> anti-virus software you don't need, and the time lost to windows crashes
> and general flakiness.
>
> The people in the corporate environment who will fight any change from
> Windows are those who's function is to babysit the Windows systems, not the
> people who pay the bills and worry about making the business profitable.
>
>   
I support a lot of Linux desktops.  By that, I mean Linux thin clients 
running off desktop servers.  Much of the success that I have had is due 
to the fact that I can usually find a person at the site who "knows 
about computers" and have them put "in charge".  I can create a 
kickstart install CD for CentOS that can be popped into pretty much any 
machine with at least 48MB of ram.  Turn it on. Wait 15 minutes.  And it 
reboots into a remote XDMCP login from the server.  (It is remarkable 
how rarely this procedure fails.  When it does, it is almost certainly a 
flaky CDROM reader.)  Typically, the person I select has been doing the 
Windows support anyway, though it was never in his job description, and 
he is more than happy to have the option of wiping Windows off the 
machine having whatever problem it is having in 15 minutes, instead of 
spending half a day mucking about with it.   They are there all day, 
every day.  I'm not.

I can't imagine going in and proposing that they replace all (or any) of 
the PC's with Mac's.  They'd throw me out!

In fact, I don't have a single client anywhere running a single Mac.  
I'd happily support them if I did.  But I just don't have any.