E@zyVG’s Vichar::World Connected

As I stated few days ago I got a computer @work which is Windows OS. After few days being in the office and some clarification with the administration I was given green light for installing and using Linux instead of Windows. Heck, they can't stop me. Always said that it's my choice and it's up to me which tools I will use to accomplish the tasks, making sure that the company's security issues are not put in danger.

But (wrong way to start sentence - grammatically), as I am new here and need to catch up with my responsibilities, I decided to delay the transition for few days, and in the meantime switch to alternative open source applications where applicable on Windows OS.

MS Office, ICQ, MSN, IE, Outlook Express and few more were removed and replaced with OpenOffice, GAIM, Firefox, Thunderbird and few more applications such as Freemind, ClamWin Antivirus, GIMP.

Some more packages were installed from Google - Desktop, Picasa, GTalk and Earth.

Eventually I will install Linux, which will be 100% for sure SUSE distribution. I need to clarify first whether Xerox WorkCentre Pro 315 will work. Also, I will go for GNOME this time. It's not to say that I have started prefering GNOME over KDE, rather I will get back to see what's up with GNOME, experiment little bit and plus I want to see faces in the company once I have Xgl/Compiz up and running, which runs better on GNOME, than KDE as per my experience. I have already tried GNOME on SUSE 10.1 on my old notebook, P-III 650Mhz with 256MB RAM, and like it quite a lot. The office computer is 2.8Ghz with 512MB RAM and the thing that bothers me is the built-in Intel graphics controller.

Gotta get back to work while listening to LugRadio podcast.

Related: Gartner: Open source on Windows is the future

Yups, it's my second day at work. I got a new job, for which I was interviewed last week, and as it seems all went well. It's an investment consultancy company and I am positioned in Business Development Department, the heart of the structure as was described to me. Nops, I am not working as some IT guy here, though I will surely, with time, advice and recommend on what and how we should organize, in regard to software, and hopefully to make them switch to more alternative open source tools wherever possible. I am more into marketing and business development side of the company. It's a respectable organization with nice team and people and hope to see myself here for sometime.

The reason I decided to write this is as I sat behind my desk, Windows greeted me. What else can you expect. All the desktops are running Windows, plus think couple are Macs. And on top of that the antivirus application, in this case Kaspersky, was expired, so I downloaded the free version of AVG Anti-Virus from Grisoft, which also has a free version for Linux. As I started missing my SUSE desktop, last night I decided to install FreeNX server on my home computer, which was quite easy. FreeNX is a free software (GPL) implementation of NoMachine's NX server. And this post is indeed written by launching my Firefox browser that is on SUSE which is running on my home workstation

I am simply amazed how fast this Terminal Server and Remote Access technology is. It's nearly same as if I was sitting behind my desktop at home. Compared to other such products, and I have tried few on Linux and Windows, NX is much much faster and it has the support of SSH and SSL enryption as well

Sadly I wasn't able to hear music that is located on my computer, neither watch video 'cause of very low frame rate

Soon: A Howto to follow on installing FreeNX on SUSE Linux 10.1 and some information on available free NX Clients from NoMachine.