pjgeer's Journal: "If only my manager would switch to Linux"

Imagine your manager switching to Linux. Imagine him asking you lots of questions at inopportune times. Imagine spending a lot of time at his computer, educating him over and over about the dangers of running as root. Imagine upper management putting together policies to govern the frightening liability risk caused by this do-anything system. Imagine IT co-opting the Linux rollout in order to provide "better service". Imagine Red Hat 5.1, because IT has the manual for that distro. Imagine typing "grep" and seeing "grep: not found". Imagine booting Linux and watching crappy desktop apps you never use automatically open on startup, thanks to IT rollout policy. Now imagine they find out about LiveCDs. Remember those 3 1/2 inch drives with the boot floppy locked in so you couldn't eject or use the drive any other way? What's to stop them from doing the same thing to a CD drive with a LiveCD inside? Believe it.