100% Linux - Is it possible?

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:58 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> The simple answer is that 99 44/100% of the time you can do without.
> 
> The only reason I have had to boot WindowZ in the last year or so was
> to tidy up a resume.  Sadly there are some human resource departments
> (gates) that expect word documents.

    Yeah?  Any luck with an online resume?  Mine is:

    http://fahrlander.net/resume

> The good news is that the companies worth working for do just fine
> with pure text.  With care and the corretly chosen TLS on the end of a
> filename even a WindowZ user can read the attachment.

    Neat trick...

> The other sad situation is the ISP tool universe.  Too often the best
> way to setup an ISP account is from a WindowZ box.  Mostly a clever
> person can lie^H^H^H translate from Linux to windows to get support.
> But you have to know both rather well to do this.....

    Yeah, just like programs on sale at Walmart that DO run on Linux,
they maintain "We don't support Linux".  The thing is, Linux supports
itself!  :)

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Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
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