Day 3 of Linux Fun

So I'm doing everything from Ubuntu so far.

The browsing works great out of the box. I can do all my Gmail stuff, and everything so far has opened nicely in Open Office. Of course I'm not doing any type of fancy editing or such so I have not run into any issues with it yet.

Jumped over to You Tube for a bit during a slow period yesterday and loaded the applet in the FireFox and was watching the videos in a minute of so.

Remote desktop RDPv5 is installed by default so I can get right on all my servers.

Got my Google Talk IM up and running with the default install of Gaim and some simple instructions on Google Talks page.

Things that I need to get running still.....
wireless, at work we use an open VPN for security just need to get the connection then the rest of the setup should be easy.
I use dual head at work and the laptop is widescreen so I need to play around with the video settings and get them all looking nice.



I can get to all my network drives, just need to map a few so I can have them up all the time.

Linux in a Windows world

The quest is starting. As a windows sysadmin in a windows shop can I successfully run my main desktop on Linux? How long can I do my job without someone noticing that I'm not running the same thing they are?

I'm viewing this sort of like preaching a religion. The best way to get true converts is not to yell on the town square about the evils of Microsoft and closed source software, but to preach by example. Run Linux and let people notice the difference then their own curiosity will get them hooked.

The setup:

• I'm a windows sysadmin which mainly includes Active Directory administration.
• I have recently setup my email to come through Gmail and send through the same, I did this ahead of time since email seems to be quite important and I wanted to make certain that there would be no problems or issues arising from it.

I am intending to run Ubuntu 6.10 and the few windows only applications that I need through wine. The only thing I will need my windows partition for anymore is classes I take that use Visual Studio (I might end up running this in vmware though) and games.

I will keep this updated on the progress and any difficulty's I experience. Also there may come a time when my administration finds out and shuts down my experiment. If I can fully mature it before that and show the validity of it that may not happen though.