[ale] Linux Distributions

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
>>Many "functional Windows systems" in commercial use are managed desktop
>>systems on which users are forbidden by policy from installing software.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
> 
> 
> Really?  Because I work for two major corporations and their policy is
> to not install anything without *approval*, but if there are tools that
> are beyond what is there they can use it:  PuTTY and the like.
> "Regular" users can't even do that with many tools because it's not
> something that they can have signed by a publishing authority.

I'll have to agree with Jeff on this one.  While I was with AT&T, 
employees were forbidden from installing software on company computers. 
  Now that didn't stop them...

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey