[geeks] solaris 2.5.1/ppc cd found

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, August 17, 2001 at 14:42:50 (-0500), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] solaris 2.5.1/ppc cd found
>
> Windows makes a *great* platform to do nothing other than 
> SSH, eXceed (x server), etc, on.  Plus, I have to have
> Outlook (company email, ugh), visio, word, excel...

Ah, I'd beg to differ!  (and do! since this is geeks....)

> P3-600Mhz makes a *great* "smart terminal".  99% of my
> work is done via SSH and X sessions to the "real computers".

That machine makes an even better terminal if it's running *BSD (or even
Linux for goodness sake!!!  :-)

I've not yet found any M$-Windoze based SSH client that's got a 100%
proper terminal emulation (though the latest ssh.com client is close).

I'd bet you don't really have to use M$-LuckOut either -- there's always
a way to get around stupid idiotic broken luser mail systems like that.  :-)

As for the other crappy software might I refer you to a recent article
posted to newsforge.net about the city of Largo, FL running their entire
IT department on Linux.  (search for "secretaries use linux").

Grrrrr.....


Sorry -- it just makes me very sad, and sometimes angry, when anyone who
knows better has to buckle under to corporate crap and use luser
software for luser reasons.  Corporate IT America can shove it!  ;-)

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