On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:46:41AM +0100, Sue Green wrote:
Hi
Just dropping a hello in here. My name is Sue and I'm trying to convert from windows to Linux (why does it sound like AA meeting when you start with my name is ....) Anyway, have installed Cygwin on an NT machine for SSH fun and games and looking to replace the current server type unit here with a Linux one in the next round of upgrades.
I'm officially IT manager of a small (um, two people including me) company, learning as I go.
Anyhoos, I work in Ipswich, live in Kesgrave..
Welcome, you sound as if you're in a similar situation to me.
I run a small Ltd. company, I used to be a (computer) contractor but just recently went permie. However I still run the company as my wife has started increasing the amount of freelance consultancy (training and youth work) that she does and doing it through a Ltd. company helps get local authorities in particular to take you seriously. I have also done a bit of 68000 assembler programming through the company recently.
Anway we have a small network at home, desktop machines run win2k but there's a 'server' that runs slackware 9.1. I use cygwin/X on my desktop machine to access the Linux machine and, in fact, do most of my computing on the Linux machine with its xfce desktop displayed on the win2k machine. I'm very impressed with cygwin/X, it's very close to being perfect (i.e. totally transparent) when running the Linux xfce desktop on my win2k machine, mouse clicks and keyboard work exactly as they should which is more than can be said with some commercial X servers. I can even cut and paste between the Linux desktop and windows without going via any menus.
I too use ssh extensively, I have a couple of shell login accounts, one on the machine where my company's web site is hosted. I ssh into there from home and work to read mail (it's a Linux system and I use mutt). I have also just started getting clever and use ssh to tunnel from my work machine in order to send mail and run fetchmail.
We're in Newbourne, just a bit further out of Ipswich in the same direction.