[ale] Best Desktop Env or Distro for Windows users?

[cfowler]

Win4Lin:  $89
Win98:	  $98

You have to have both and it is not the way to go in that 
area IMHO.  At home yeah, I'll use it to save space and computers.


On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 15:14, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > From: Irv Mullins [mailto:irvm at ellijay.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:22 PM
> >
> >> Of course, this all depends on whether or not
> >> there is an essential application that *only*
> >> runs on windows that the employee needs.  In
> >> this case, it would of course be necessary to
> >> provide access to that program, but you can
> >> still do this and run Linux terminals too.
> 
> > Example: UPS provides shipping software, which
> > most businesses use. Several employees need to
> > access that software. It won't run on Linux,
> > UPS shows no interest in producing a Linux
> > version. Wine or Win4Lin don't help.
> 
> 1) What makes you think it won't run on Win4Lin?  If it will run on Windows
> 9x, there is a 99.99% chance it will run on Win4Lin.
> 
> 2) Worst case, we setup a Windows Terminal Server and use RDesktop from the
> Linux w/s.
> 
> Irv, this was not a very good argument in support of your side of the
> argument - certainly not good enough to prevent a wholesale Desktop
> migration to Linux.
> 
> Charles
> 
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