On 23/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kris Douglas</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:webbox.uk@gmail.com">webbox.uk@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have shown the company i am working for that their systems can run on linux, i now manage their it department and they have saved thousands with the software and the hardware.</blockquote><div><br>I wasn&#39;t going to add anything further to the thread TBH&nbsp; I don&#39;t really like this old chestnut question you see it over and over again on mailing lists and forums and always makes me wonder whether its;
<br><br>A. Some sort of challenge.<br>B. Some sort of trumpet blowing opportunity.<br>C. A genuine interest.<br>&nbsp;<br></div>Having read the the posts so far I reckon its a probably a genuine inquisitive question. I attended a Sophos anti virus training session yesterday, now for the past four years Sophos have offered a Linux version which got me thinking about this thread  so I&#39;ll start a new thread in a while along the same lines *Can paid for Linux applications be classed as&nbsp; promoting Linux?*
<br></div><br>Getting back to this thread.<br><br>1. Given away a Laptop to a LUG for use with demonstrations and training.<br>2. Given away a Server to a LUG member for development purposes.<br>3. Given away loads and loads of hardware (Monitors, cards, HDD&#39;s ect)
<br>4. Given away loads of &#39;Boxed versions of Linux operating systems&#39;.<br>5. Given away *Mint condition Linux/open source books.<br>6. Physically helped loads of people install Linux on their machines.<br>7. Have membership of far too many lists and forums and IRC channels (helping if I can)
<br>8. Written some HOWTO&#39;s<br>9. Member of two development lists/teams (Ifolders and Covide)<br>10. Create VM Linux based appliances supplied to VMware website for download by anyone.<br>11. Sell Open source solutions
<br>12. Run some Linux based machines here at work.<br>13. Run dedicated Linux boxes and laptops at home.<br>13. Run a Linux advocacy website at my own expense.<br><br>Probably lots of other stuff to but I&#39;m bored with listing everything now.
<br><br>Enjoy<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br><br>Dick Turpin<br><br>Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there&#39;s no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.