On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:35:54PM -0600, andy at theasis.com wrote: > > I think that Linux has a long way to go before it reaches the corporate > > desktop and the typical home setting. I think this is because of Linux's > > "sysadminitis". Linux is a great OS. It is geek-spectaular and all that. The > > problem is that I'm not a sysadmin, nor do I ever want to be one. I'm a > > The corporate desktop doesn't tend to be admin'd by users. Most > corporations of any size strongly discourage that. Absolutely. As one who has been sucked into the tarpit of being paid to sysadmin, I can assure you that I neither expect nor allow my users to admin their own machines. I give them a working machine and, if they need software that wasn't already installed (a rare event, since I take the trouble to find out what they need before giving them the box), they tell me and, after a few minutes with ssh and apt-get (and, occasionally, vi), it's installed and they can get on with their life. > I think this is conducive to a much more > efficient admin environment, since it integrates better with a sensible > communication mechanism (as opposed to banging on the door and saying, "My > netscape won't print". They may not bang on my door, but I still get plenty of calls asking, "Is Netscape down?" when people can't get their email. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery