Linux on the desktop

Dear all,

Despite my confidence at the last meeting, linux on the desktop can be a 
battle at times.  More difficult in China than elswhere I suspect 
because of the endemic nature of pirated windows.

The supplier of our legal database has "upgraded" their software.  The 
server still requires Windows (although the actual server software is 
apache) and that is the reason that we need at least one windows machine 
(It does not work under Xover unfortunately).  The "upgraded" software 
    now only supports ie clients.

Their literature claims that it supports Netscape, and before it was 
fine, but now it is not.

Naturally, we are making as much noise about it as we can with the 
current supplier, but we will have to look for a new supplier.

So much for government support of linux.

Having said all that, we are in the process of updating our linux 
systems and will be running Ubuntu on the desktop.  Mainly because of 
the convenient installer.

Graham Brown
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