Linux in the workplace, on the desk.

[Michael Hipp]

Alan Jackson wrote:

> Well I got a Linux box at work last week. On my desk. This is significant,
> because we are looking to replace all Unix desktops with Linux over the
> next couple of years (about 5000 systems). 
> 
> I'm the local guinea pig.
> 
> It's a pretty good box. It's an HP with dual 3 Ghz Xeons, 4 Gb ram, and
> an Nvidia Quadro4 380XGL. It has Redhat 7.3 on it. And dual 21 inch
> flat screen monitors. Nice! I shoved my Ultra-80 to the back of the desk,
> and slipped the monitors in front.

That's a *very* nice box. But why such an old version of RH?

> I'll be using it for high-end 3D visualization, high throughput data
> processing (filtering many Gbytes) and at night our developers will run 
> their builds on it. Should be fun...

That's one thing the Windows world will never appreciate - that Linux is 
both a server *and* a desktop in one.

Congrats!

Michael