Ubuntu On The Business Desktop

Posted by tadelste on Nov 17, 2005 9:28 AM EDT
Mad Penguin; By Simon Gerber
Mail this story
Print this story

I work as a consultant in a Windows-centric work-place and we remotely administer Windows servers. We trouble-shoot Windows clients. We keep spammers out of our Exchange servers. We defrag. We update. We install antivirus programs. We eliminate spyware. I suppose it would be fair to say that Microsoft keeps us in business. One day, while the boss was away, I shoved a spare hard-drive into my computer and installed Ubuntu 5.04. I managed to work for a month and a half before the Boss noticed I was using Linux - and that was only because he happened to glance at my screen. Half a year later, I am still using Ubuntu (now version 5.10) at work and I am more productive than ever.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.