Adams-Blake Co. has been running its business completely free of Windows for an entire year. Company president Alan Canton tells the full story.
Our business is not that different from most others. We have products (books), services (consulting), and employees. If we can go Windowless, others can as well.
While the year wasn’t without its technical challenges, it did have some advantages.
Oh, and let me tell you how many times we had to reboot, how many viruses we got, and how much adware and spyware we were infected with. Can you spell Z-E-R-O?
Those of you still stuck behind a Windows box: Take heart. There is hope.
This was the first time we’ve been able to go a full year without booting Windows. Linux has been slow in coming to the small business sector, but it’s almost here now.
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Johnson
Jun 18, 2006
Let me preface this by saying I am a big Linux fan, and it is clearly better than Windows. If you’re a corporation with an IT department, you can set up secure systems. If you’re a single user desktop, however, good luck.
That’s a shame. too, because many unsophisticated users could really bebefit from Linux. But the Linux community has mostly ignored them. Ubuntu is probably the closest thing to Windows for these users, but even in 2006, it still takes a lot of configuration. Most default installs leave remote services enabled, and do not install and configure security software. There’s only one distro I know of that even has a default firewall.
Sean Wilson
Jan 26, 2007
The Linux desktop is certainly improving these days. Mandriva One is a great starter desktop for those looking to switch over from Windows. I hear Linspire is as well. I have tried XandrOS and it installs more smoothly than Windows and runs much better.
I think now that VMWare, Lin4Win, Codeweavers Crossover and Wine are out there so people can run Windows applications in Linux, they’ll start to switch more.