July 20, 2006
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Vista vs. Ubuntu?

Vista vs. Ubuntu? @ Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:55 AM
We switched over all our servers AND workstations from windows to ubuntu (dapper) about 6 weeks ago. The transition was ultra smooth, taking around 15 mins to install on each machine. The motivation was security - despite commercial firewalls and auto-updating anti-virus software we continuously found key loggers and viruses on the systems, probably gotten there via IE or outlook express. We exported our email history for use with kmail, which suits our purposes very well. OpenOffice supplies all the features we need for documents, and software development is done in netbeans. It hurt to think of all the money we poured in over the years for the windows add-ons (office, personal firewalls, visual studio, anti-virus etc) but that's over now.

via http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/eweek_labs/archive/2006/07/19/11663.aspx#11691

Posts like these, in public locations, amuse me.

Why, oh why, would you run your users as local administrators?  Would you log users into Ubuntu as root?

Interesting numbers there, too.  Let's say you have 3 servers and 15 workstations.  (3+15)x15 mins = 270 minutes.  4.5 hours.  So, come in at 8am, and you'd be done in time for lunch.  Brilliant.

I'm convinced.  Let's switch today.


 
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:34:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
how often do you perform installation? With Ubuntu you do not need periodic installation of the OS :-) and please let me continue my rant - it is a shame that Microosft has never made a Windows' based Live CD ever available. they acquired Winternals - let us see what happens - maybe start selling the ERD Commander / Admin Pak for couple of grand.
Abhi
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:06:46 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I rarely have to redeploy production systems. I typically install Windows when the system is first provisioned/purchased, and I don't hear about it again until the HDD dies, or the system is decommissioned. You're constantly reinstalling systems? =)
If the every day user does not use the system as a local administrator, I don't see how any problems can be generated that a format would solve!

WinPE has been made available to Select Agreement/Software Assurance customers - and because of the licensing model, I think it's somewhat difficult to distribute that CD for free.
I think the ERD/AdminPak tools will become one of the SA benefits - and may not be sold commercially.
Justin
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