I think I'll install linux on my work machine.

[Evadman]

I have domain admin rights at work, it's not a problem for me 😛

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux is now installed and I'm configuring it how I want 🙂

:thumbsup:

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux is now installed and I'm configuring it how I want 🙂

for an awesome job

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux is now installed and I'm configuring it how I want 🙂

Which distribution?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux is now installed and I'm configuring it how I want 🙂

Which distribution?

Ubuntu

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux is now installed and I'm configuring it how I want 🙂

Which distribution?

Ubuntu

god bless you?

 

[AmigaMan]

moving to Linux was the second greatest thing I did at work. Switching to a Mac was the first. I went from a corporate imaged Red Hat 9 to a personal laptop with Ubuntu 5.04 to Ubuntu 5.10, to a MacBook Pro. Our IT department serves at the beck and call of the Windows users, for the development and QA group, they pretty much leave us alone.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: notfred
Ubuntu

god bless you?

LMFAO

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: tfinch2
What are you restricted from that you absolutely need access to?

Nothing, really. It's jsut frustrating to use a machine that wont, say, let you install software.

Yeah, but looking at it from the admins PoV, most of the domain users are morons and will install a crapload of things that will make their jobs harder. Unfortunately some responsible users get caught in the cross-fire, just the price of doin business I guess.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: notfred
Linux is now installed and I'm configuring it how I want 🙂

😀 Which flavor'd you go with?

/edit just read Ubuntu, nice easy distro, and if it somehow totally gets hosed (not that likely heh) it only takes about 15 minutes to install 😀

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan
moving to Linux was the second greatest thing I did at work. Switching to a Mac was the first. I went from a corporate imaged Red Hat 9 to a personal laptop with Ubuntu 5.04 to Ubuntu 5.10, to a MacBook Pro. Our IT department serves at the beck and call of the Windows users, for the development and QA group, they pretty much leave us alone.

Heh, at my last job we moved a portion of the sales team to Gentoo and skinned it to look like Win 9x. All of the apps that they used in windows were either web based (our website) Java based (our phone ordering and quoting system) or OpenOffice (we used this even on our windows machines) No one even noticed a difference when they came in, and it made it infinitely more difficult for them to really screw things up 😀

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: nonnormman
I hope you enjoy unemployment.

I hope you do to. I'm glad you know so much about how we conduct business here, so you can tell me whether I'll get fired or not.

Worst thing they'l ldo is tell me to uinintall linux, or make me sign some form allowing me to use it.

If someone from management sees you running Linux, you're gone. Because as we all know, Linux is only used for Hacksorizing the Gibsons, stealing movies and music, downloading kiddie porn, and supporting terrorism. 😛

- M4H

If someone from management sees me running linux they won't know the difference from Windows, anyway. It'll just look like a computer to them. Even if thy did know the difference, they'd assume I was running it for a reason.

If management saw me running Linux on my laptop, they would probably give me classify me as an "expert" on the OS and give me even more sys admin work to do 🙂 I guess that there are some advantages to running a hybrid shop.