ubuntu is taking over - in my work place
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:13 am
we run ubuntu servers and all our computer labs run ubuntu .. not because the school authority liked free as speech .. but because its free as air.. i am the IT guy .. and part of my job is to migrate of school computers to Ubuntu (including staffs computers given to them by the school).all our staffs run vista on their work laptops .i tried telling them about Linux but all i got was the middle finger.. i could have forced them but that would make me a bad guy .. so i waited knowing windows vista would do the dirty job for me eventually .. and it didn't take long .. i got a call ..the accounting officer's laptop got hit by a virus .. Norton was helpless .. i told her our best bet was to install Linux .. she was nervous but i promised her that in a weeks time if she is not used to it then i would change her back to windows .. cool .. so i grabbed the laptop .. wiped out vista .. installed hardy .. .. added screenlet , some eye candy and all was ready ( yeah everything worked) and she was really impressed .. 2 weeks later when she came back from a trip ..i asked her how it was going .. she said awesome .. no slow down,crashes or hanging, and the system is much faster .. she loves open office, and rhythmbox ... (i didnt even tell her about rhythmbox she most have figured it out her self)
2 .. the school librarian runs xp on an ancient dell 1.1ghz celeron with 256 mb .. the computer was has slow as hell .. so i offered to speed things up with Linux .. she said WTF is that .. just do whatever .. as long has its fast and works .. so i plugged in the Ethernet cable and booted from the network (ubuntu life cd wouldnt even boot).. from there i installed a cli version of ubuntu .. then i installed xubuntu-desktop ... added the lxde repo then installed lxde ... .. i removed FF3 and installed seamonkey .. then installed mirage and made it the default picture viewer .. for music i used sonata and rhythmbox .. now the latop rocks and its sooooo fast .. the lady thanks me everyday she is sooo very happy .. am sure if i ask .. i would probably get laid in a show of gratitude .. but that is btw ... and she is just some plain ol average jenny now she uses linux .. and probably doesnt even know it ..
3 ..my boss called me to his office ... i was scared turned out he wanted me to install a software on his windows laptop a djvu and a postscript viewer for windows i asked if he needed same for is ubuntu desktop .. he said naaa ubuntu just work .. so after googling and finding nothing he liked i offered to dual boot is vista with linux he said ok .. so i installed ubuntu for him .. when everything was setup and for the first time he said thank you .. twice ! ..
now the news is out that Linux is better after all .. some staffs are still holding out .. but trust vista .. it wont be long ..
2 .. the school librarian runs xp on an ancient dell 1.1ghz celeron with 256 mb .. the computer was has slow as hell .. so i offered to speed things up with Linux .. she said WTF is that .. just do whatever .. as long has its fast and works .. so i plugged in the Ethernet cable and booted from the network (ubuntu life cd wouldnt even boot).. from there i installed a cli version of ubuntu .. then i installed xubuntu-desktop ... added the lxde repo then installed lxde ... .. i removed FF3 and installed seamonkey .. then installed mirage and made it the default picture viewer .. for music i used sonata and rhythmbox .. now the latop rocks and its sooooo fast .. the lady thanks me everyday she is sooo very happy .. am sure if i ask .. i would probably get laid in a show of gratitude .. but that is btw ... and she is just some plain ol average jenny now she uses linux .. and probably doesnt even know it ..
3 ..my boss called me to his office ... i was scared turned out he wanted me to install a software on his windows laptop a djvu and a postscript viewer for windows i asked if he needed same for is ubuntu desktop .. he said naaa ubuntu just work .. so after googling and finding nothing he liked i offered to dual boot is vista with linux he said ok .. so i installed ubuntu for him .. when everything was setup and for the first time he said thank you .. twice ! ..
now the news is out that Linux is better after all .. some staffs are still holding out .. but trust vista .. it wont be long ..