[ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

[Jeff Lightner]

Funny - the Help Desk folks here couldn't figure out how to Ghost NTFS
when my Windoze laptop hard drive was being upgraded so wanted to
reinstall with FAT32 (and of course lose everything I had).  

I went out and got a Gparted boot disk and did the swap myself (and also
setup dual boot).  I then burned them a copy of the CD and gave them the
instructions.  They never came to get the CD and when I asked recently
the version of Ghost they use STILL is the one that won't do NTFS.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Cartwright
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:45 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Linspire chairman thinks desktop Linux is futile

On Mon July 7 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> The main problem is shops that primarily use Windows for the desktop
> have, not surprisingly, Windows admins who have little or no clue
about
> Linux and don't really want to learn.

I have run into that all too often. The application I install goes on a
RHEL 
server. When I ask if they have putty around, and get a blank stare, I
know 
I'm in trouble. When they add a DVD burner to the application, they have
to 
identify  the device by logging in, and then they have to reboot the
server. 
I wish I had a $ for every time they asked me HOW to reboot the box...

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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