Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Tracker1
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun May 07 2023 07:56:00

-=> Tracker1 wrote to TassieBob <=-


 Tr> I'd say that WSL is the only thing that makes Windows tolerable at this
 Tr> point. Last place I was at the IT/Ops guys were testing Linux support,
 Tr> would have been a nice option.

 I did a Linux desktop pilot program for my employer back in 2013, and
 back then it was intriguing. We wanted to create a linux VM that would
 run in a Windows host to get developers up and running quickly, but it
 as quickly became a bare-metal possibility.

 Libreoffice, Evolution and Chromium did most everything we needed from
 an office standpoint, Centrify allowed us to use Active Directory for
 logins, but the showstopper ended up being the services team
 not wanting to support another management platform. SCCM had promised
 to be cross-platform, but never held up the promise. We ended up
 running Casper/JAMF for Macs, and would have had to add another layer for
 Linux desktops.

 Another project sprang out of my Linux desktop project. We were buying
 monster Dell Precision workstations with single Xeon CPUs, 64 GB of
 RAM and boot SSDs with 2 storage SATA drives- pretty impressive for the
 time.

 I did my VM image builds on an Optiplex 990 with an i7, 32 GB of RAM
 and the built-in RAID with 2 Hybrid SATA drives set up as a mirror set.
 Turns out my system ran the dev stack very well, but at a fraction of
 the price.

 Turns out the client engineering team figured you could spend your way
 into any solution when you have enough money.




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