Linux Desktop Deployment Postmortems? 371
duffbeer703 asks: "My employer runs alot of desktop and laptop computers -- something in the neighborhood of 40,000 PCs. Currently they are all Windows 2000 & XP managed by Active Directory and other big, complicated enterprise management tools, all of which can support Linux in one form or another. I'm looking for ways of making Linux (and maybe Unix or even Apple desktops) an option as we replace or add PCs. The problem is, most of the resources that you find online about deploying Linux focuses on server environment, and the articles that I do find about desktop Linux focus on standalone developer workstations, the IBM conversion to Linux (which doesn't seem to have happened) or things like LTSP, that won't integrate well with our infrastructure. Is anyone out there successfully using Linux for regular users? How did it go, and how did your IT and user communities adapt to the new kid on the block?"
Head first (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ubuntu? (Score:5, Funny)
First the Red Hat zealots came for me, and I said nothing because I didn't want to run a commercialized distro
Then the Gentoo zealots came for me, and I said nothing because I didn't want to compile everything
Then the OS X zealots came for me, and I said nothing because I won't pay for overpriced hardware
Finally the Ubuntu zealots came for me, and everyone was so sick of offtopic zealotry that no one spoke up at all.
Re:Microsoft writing Slashdot titles? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Guitar Strings (Score:3, Funny)
-everphilski-
Re:Disaster (Score:3, Funny)
Amen, brother.
Self-important twats have spoiled the flowering of several potentially beautiful projects.
The problem is not many people dig a paradigm shift, and Windows to F/OSS is definately one of those.
Homer? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, I didn't realize the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employed so many people.
Re:Microsoft writing Slashdot titles? (Score:2, Funny)