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On the road to World domination, the humorous comment from Linus Torvalds, Linux faces one or two minor challenges. One of these is the competition from Windows. This book is aimed at the network administrator in a Windows world. Any network administrator that isn’t living in a dream world has to at least be aware of Linux. And he probably knows things like the increased stability, lower cost, faster performance of Linux.

The problem is that very few administrators have the authority (or are willing to put up with the complaints) of changing the desktop machines. This book might be called the guerilla warfare approach to bringing Linux into the network. It says to define a background application such as file, web, or mail server to set up using Linux. Set up one Linux box to handle this task. The rest of the network remains Windows oriented. As you get more experience with Linux, pick another background application to convert.

Alternatively you can bite a big bullet and change all the machines. Appendix B gives some hints and tips on things like what desktop software is available, how to run Windows programs under Linux, file system compatibility and so on. It doesn’t tell you what to do when the boss’s secretary comes screaming at you for changing her desktop.
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