I'm not inclined to agree with the herd on this.  I've deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop into some businesses and three campuses of a school system.  Xen was part of the distro (an important consideration) so I also loaded XP on the boxes that needed to run Windows apps.  None of this dual boot stuff.  They've called Novell's tech support on occasion and their feedback to me has been very positive.  They didn't have to come back to me for problems.  Candidly, I found this Linux distro a lot easier to integrate into a MAC (OS9 and OS-X) environment; that also was an important consideration.

Just my experience from the trenches.

Bob

Greater Worcester Land Trust wrote: 
It has been a while.

I tried getting our nonprofit (Worcester land conservation) to adopt Linux
some years back.
Problem I had back then was weak graphic options, publisher options, Quicken
options, and a lack of a good answer to running ArcGIS.
I was beaten back into M$.

I want another crack at this.

I am looking to take a spare laptop and install a Linux OS and OS apps.
Previously, some years back, I used to use what are now Mandriva Linux
installs.

Coming back to this I see that there are dozens and dozens of options these
days.

What, if any, of the options do the WLUG folk prefer/recommend.

Thanks so much,

Colin

  

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