[dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Gustav:

I know that the majority of hardware used in desktop graphic work is the MAC (with their FreeBSD Unix core). One of my daughters works as an animator...of the staff of 185, I think only a couple of people use a Windows machine.

Office workers traditionally use Windows desktops but most of their needs could be easily satisfied with a nice Linux distro. ;-) 

In the technical and scientific community is where Linux desktops rule. Also, as far as I have been aware, most big companies and Web based firms use Linux BE systems.

Of course most of my government work, was in mapping (all Linux and Unix), then a stint with Microsoft, when it was king, but finally pre-retirement work for the banking industry was where all BEs were Linux.

I think it depends on which niche you are in. To my way of thinking Linux is the logical upgrade from Windows desktop but I have always been more interested in server systems. My first computer training was on Unix servers...before the PC even existed...so the die-was-set from the start.

Even Microsoft is going this way. The FE desktops will still be the Windows distro interface (a very pretty one at that) but all Microsoft's management and Cloud system will be completely Linux within a few years. 

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 1:45:00 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

Hi Jim

I'm not so sure - and exactly "the hundreds of desktops" prohibits that.

As most of our clients operate with advertising and TV and movie production, we see a lot of Macs, but when I think about it, I have never met a Linux workstation since we started business - in 1993.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 5. oktober 2015 22:23
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

Hi All:

I thought the future was Linux? ;-)

Linux has around a hundreds of desktops and it runs on and in everything.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 8:30:01 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

Hi John

Don't blame me. I didn't ask for the reinvention of the Start Menu. It was people like you who did.

The Start Screen of Windows 8 was great. You had both the larger tiles for frequently used applications and the other pane with the small tiles for everything installed.

That said, you must meet any new system with a positive attitude. If not, you can make anything to fall behind.

So, not a fan of the new Start Mess, I have decided to adopt for Windows 10. In any other way, it works absolutely great, it runs an all our home and office machines now, and for every machine to the better - from my ten years old HP Pavilion, my two ThinkStations, two Fujitsu desktops, the Surface Pro 2, to our two new Lenovo Yoga 2-1051 (amazing Atom-powered machines, by the way). It is the future, and looking back serves no purpose.

/gustav
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